Philip Wenman, 7th Viscount Wenman (18 April 1742 – 26 March 1800), styled The Honourable Philip Wenman until 1760, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the

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from 1768 to 1796. Thame Park Geograph-3434777-by-Des-Blenkinsopp

Wenman was the son of Philip Wenman, 6th Viscount Wenman, by Sophia, eldest daughter and co-heir of James Herbert, of Tythorpe,

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. Thomas Wenman was his younger brother. In February, 1760 he matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford. In August 1760, aged 18, he succeeded in the viscountcy and to

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on the early death of his father. The viscountcy was an

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and did not entitle him to a seat in the English

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.Archdall, Mervyn. ''The Peerage of Ireland, or the Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. Volume IV''.
/ref> In 1768 he was instead returned to the

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as a

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for

, a seat he held for the next 28 years. Lord Wenman married Lady Eleanor, fifth daughter of

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, in 1766. He died in March 1800, aged 57, when the viscountcy became extinct. Thame Park passed to his 10-year-old niece Sophia Elizabeth Wykeham, later created the 1st (and last) Baroness Wenman, who took up residence there.

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