Wharton, Philip, 1st Duke of Wharton (1698–1731)

English aristocrat and soldier. The only son of Thomas, 1st Marquess of Wharton, he rejected his father's Protestantism for the Jacobite cause, going to France in 1716 to join James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender. He was declared a traitor and outlaw by the House of Lords, and died in exile, fighting for the Spanish against the English in Gibraltar.

In 1717, Wharton came back to England and took over his family's title and lands after swearing allegiance to George I. However, in protest at the jailing and banishment of Bishop Francis Atterbury in 1722 for his Jacobite beliefs, Wharton again joined the Pretender and spent the rest of his life abroad.