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 128 WHARTON. oohdr of Sir John Dawbbi, the Rogioide. With her he had en estate of £2,600 a year and a sum of £10,000. She, who was bap, 24 Julj 1659 (the day of her mother's faneral), at Spelsbary, Oioo, was an authoress. She <f. ap. at Adderbury, 29 Oct. and was bur, 10 Nor. 1685, at Winchendon. He m. secuDdly, July 1692, Lucy, da. and h. of Adam (LiOFTUs), Vuooumt Luaurns [I.], by Lucy, da. and coheir of Qetirge (Brtdgis), 6th Babon CflAHDOa op SaDiLKy. She inherited the estate of Rathfamham, co. DubUD,(*} augmenting his property b^ some £5,000 a year. He d, at his house in Dorer street^ 12 and was bur, 22 Apnl 1716, at Winchendon (only a few weeks after his creation as a Marquess), in his 67th year. Will dai. 8 April and pr. Sep. I715.(i>j His widow d. at Aylesbury, 6 ^nd was 6ttr. 14 Feb. 1715/6, at Winohendon, sged 47. Will dat 9 Dec. 1716, pr. 20 Peb. 1716/6. and Earldom i9, $, 6 and 1. Phiup (Wharton), Marqubss op Whartoh and Mabquissof MAurasBUBT [1715], Eibl or 1715, Whartoh [1706], ViaoouMT Wihohrndoh [1706] and j{ y to Baron Wharton [1544] ; also Marqurss of Catbrrlouqh, 1731. B^*^ ^* IUthfarhham and Baron Trih [L, 1715], ouly Barony s. and h., by seoond wife, 6.» apparently, on or shortly ^j I before 21 Dec. 1698 at Adderbury, or Ditchley, Oxon., and Y^* ' bap 5 Jan. 1698/9, William III., the Princess Anne of Denmark and the Duke of Shrewsbury being his Sponsors ; styled Dukedom Visooont Winohbnoon from 1706 till he sue. to the peerage r 1 Ti fi [^' ^^^ 1'] ^ Marquess, and to an estate of about £14,000 a year, '- ^'^^> indnding his mother*s jointure of £6.000, 12 April 1715. He ^ vi^itctl, at Avignon, iu Sept 1716, the titular King James III., by 1731. whom he was either then or (more probably) ten years later, in 1 726, cr. Duke of Northumberland^ and whose health he is said to hare openly drunk at the English Embassv at PMris.(®) No notice, howerer, of his conduct was taken by the Qorernment, and. tho' under age, he was allowed to take his seat in the Irish House of Peers, being introduced 12 Aug. 1717 ; P.C [I.] 1717-26. While sUil under age he was er. 28 Jan. 1717/8, DUKfi OF WHARTON, (•) bee Yol, ▼, p. 108, note " b," eub " Uaburne," (^) Swift, besides adding tu Mauky's flattering clutracter of him (see p. 127, note "f ") that he was *'tbe most universal villain I ever knew," bays that he made at least £45,000 out of Ilia short governnii^nt uf Ireland, lie writes of hiai in Iuh iihorl ChaviKter of the Lord Lieut, o/ JreUndf 30 Aug. 1710, that "lie is without the sense of shame or glory, as mnae men are without the sense of smelling ; uud therefore a good name to him is no more than a precious ointment would be to these ... He has passed some years his grand climacteric without any visible effects of old age either on his body or mind ; and in spite of a continual prostitution to those vic(*s, which usually wear out botJi ... He seems to be but an ill dissembler and liar, although they are the two talents he most practices and moat values himself upon . . . With a good natural understanding, a great fluency in speaking, and no ill taste of wit, he is generally the worst companion in the world ; his thoughts being wholly taken up between vice and politics, so that bawiy profaneness and business fill up his whole conversation ... He bears the gallantries of his lady with the indifference of a stoic ... He has three pre<ljminant pasaions which you will seldom find united in the same man, these are love of power, love of money and love of pleasure." Lsdy Mary Wortley Montagu calls him ** the most profligate, impious and shameless of men," and speaks of his (second) wife as " equally unfeeling and unprincipled ; flattering, fawning, canting, affecting prudery and even sanctity, yet in reality as abandoned and unscrupulous as her husband himself." He was, however, termed [" faeeliout/y termed " says J. R. Kobiuson in the "introduction" to his Philip, Duke of H'Aar^n] '* Honest Tom," and was, by the Whig party (often hard pressed for a hero), spoken of ss a *' Patriot." The Whig-historian, Macaulay, does all honour to his politieal, at the expense of his pertonal, character, saying of him that ** of all the liain of his time he was the most deliberate, the most inventive and the most droumstautial . . . The faleest of mankind in all relations but one, he waa the trueet of Whigs." His portrait, " after Sir G. Kneller," is engraved in "Doyle," That of his second wife, by Lely, is engraved by Thompson. He had a famous stud of race horses, greyhounds, &c. •) Jesse's OouH of Stif^nd, toL iii, p. 268.