Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 124 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5111-9308-3
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton (21 December 1698 – Poblet, Spain, 31 May 1731, aged 32), powerful Jacobite politician, notorious libertine and rake, profligate, and alcoholic, was one of the few people in English history, and the first since the 15th century, to have been raised to a Dukedom whilst still a minor and not closely related to the monarch. He was the son of Thomas "Honest Tom" Wharton, the Whig partisan. When Thomas died in 1715, Philip, then 16 years old, succeeded him as 2nd Marquess of Wharton and 2nd Marquess of Malmesbury in the Peerage of Great Britain and 2nd Marquess of Catherlough in the Peerage of Ireland. Just a month after he achieved his titles, he eloped with Martha Holmes, the daughter of Major-General Richard Holmes. Wharton did not get control of his father's extensive estate, for it was put in the care of Philip's mother and Thomas's Whig party friends. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений,...