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 Philip Wenman, 6th Viscount Wenman (23 November 1719 – 16 August 1760), was a British landowner and politician. He was the elder son of Richard Wenman, 5th Viscount Wenman, and Susanna Wenman (née Wroughton, daughter of Seymour Wroughton o ...

, 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 Thame Park 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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