WHARTON, PHILIP, DUKE OF

WHARTON, PHILIP, DUKE OF
   an able man, but unprincipled, who led a life of extravagance; professed loyalty to the existing government in England; intrigued with the Stuarts, and was convicted of high-treason, and died in Spain in a miserable condition (1698-1731).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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