Sir Thomas Wharton (c 1588 – 17 April 1622) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

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between 1614 and 1622. Aske Hall Yorkshire Morris edited

Wharton was the second son of Philip Wharton, 3rd Baron Wharton and his wife Frances Clifford, second daughter of Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland. He purchased the estate of

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at Easby, Yorkshire from Lady Eleanor Bowes, a distant relative early in 1611 and was knighted at Whitehall on 25 April 1611. In 1614, he was elected

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for

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and re-elected in 1621. King James came to Aske on 16 April 1617.John Nichols, ''Progresses of James the First'', vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 275, Nichols makes the owner "Talbot Bowes". Wharton died at the age of about 34. He had married Lady Philadelphia Carey, daughter of

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on 11 April 1611. His elder brother George had been killed in a duel in 1609, and thus his eldest son young

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inherited the

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when the 3rd Baron died in 1625. Wharton's second son

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was also MP for Westmorland. History of Parliament Online - Wharton, Sir Thomas
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