Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton [SEP] date of birth
Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton
Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton (21 December 1698 – 31 May 1731) was a powerful Jacobite politician, 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. 
Youth.
He was the son of Thomas "Honest Tom" Wharton, the Whig partisan, and his second wife Lucy Loftus. When Thomas died in 1715,
- Thomas Wharton, 5th Baron Wharton (1648–1715) (created Earl of Wharton in 1706 and Marquess of Wharton in 1715)
Marquesses of Wharton (1715).
- Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton (1648–1715)
- Philip Wharton, 2nd Marquess of Wharton (1698–1731) (abeyant 1731) (created Duke of Wharton in 1718)
Dukes of Wharton (1718).
- Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton (1698–1731) (forfeit 1729 (forfeiture retroactively reversed 1825), all except