Edward Ross Wharton (1844–1896) was an English academic, known as a classical scholar and genealogist.

Life

Born at

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on 4 August 1844, he was second son of Henry James Wharton, vicar of

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; his mother was a daughter of Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, and a younger brother, Henry Thornton Wharton (1846–1895) was a medical man known as an ornithologist and for an edition of

Sappho Sappho (; el, Σαπφώ ''Sapphō'' ; Aeolic Greek ''Psápphō''; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her Greek lyric, lyric poetry, written to be sung while ...

. He was educated as a day-boy at

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under Richard Elwyn and elected to a scholarship at

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in 1862. He graduated as a BA in 1868 and an MA in 1870. Despite poor health and eyesight, he won the Ireland scholarship in his second year. He was placed in the first class in classical moderations and in the final classical school. In 1868 Wharton was elected to a fellowship at Jesus College, where he was assistant tutor and Latin lecturer. He died at Oxford on 4 June 1896, and his remains were cremated at

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Works

Wharton published: *''Etyma Græca'' (1882), an etymological lexicon of classical Greek (1882) *''Etyma Latina'' (1890) *Translations of Aristotle's ''Poetics'' and Book i. of Horace's ''Satires'' *Papers for the

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and the French Société Linguistique Six manuscript volumes left to the

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contained genealogical researches into the family named Wharton or Warton, including the baronial family of Wharton of

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, now in

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. A sketch of the family which he completed just before his death was printed by his widow in 1898.

Family

In 1870 Wharton married Marie, a daughter of Samuel Hicks Withers of

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, who died in 1899. They had no children.

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* Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Wharton, Edward Ross 1844 births 1896 deaths Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford English classical scholars English genealogists