Anne Wharton [SEP] place of death
Anne Wharton
Anne Wharton (née Lee) was an English poet and verse dramatist, who was born on 20 July 1659 at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, and died on 29 October 1685 at Adderbury, Oxfordshire. Little of her work was published in her lifetime, but some 45 pieces have been ascribed to her.
Life.
Anne was the posthumous younger daughter of Sir Henry Lee, and a member of a wealthy family. Her mother died not long after her birth. She and her sister Eleanor were brought
with syphilis, Anne Wharton left him her fortune. Her grandmother Anne St. John, Countess of Rochester tried to regain her fortune from the Whartons with little effect.
He married secondly Lucy Loftus, only daughter and heiress of Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne and Lucy Brydges. They had one son Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton, and two daughters, Lucy Morice and Jane Holt. On his son's death without heirs, all his titles became extinct, except the Barony which passed to Jane Holt.
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