Wharton

Philip, Duke of, was bom in 1698, and was educated by his father to be a great orator, a Whig in politics, and a Presbyterian by religion. He made a * Fleet ’ marriage, but soon left his wife, and went to Geneva with a French Huguenot tutor. When he returned he took his seat in the Irish House of Peers, and supported the English Government with so much zeal and ability that he was raised to the English peerage. He opposed the Government on the South Sea Bill, fell deeply in debt, went to Rome, there joined the Pretender, a umed from him the title of Duke of North umber land, and fought for the Spaniards against the English in the siege of Gibraltar. He died in 1731.