Philip James Wharton, duke of Wharton

(1698-1731)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wharton, Philip Wharton, Duke of, 1698-1731 NRA: Wharton Philip (1698-1731) Duke of Wharton DNB: Wharton, Philip James, duke of Wharton and Jacobite duke of Northumberland (1698–1731), rake and politician LBT ID: DuWhart VIAF ID: 25028267 LOC ID: n83029017	B/BAP: 1698-12-21 DIED: 1731-05-31
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Poet, rake, and Jacobite peer; he was founder of the Hellfire Club before his exile and early death on the Continent.
REFERENCES TO Philip James Wharton, duke of Wharton: Sir Walter Scott to Lord Montagu of Boughton, 30 November 1820 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 86 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Lord Byron’s Character and Writings” in The Southern Review 5 (May 1830) 463-522 Found 1: ¶ 66 Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Review 53 (June 1831) 544-572 Found 1: ¶ 54 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1820-21