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Henry Wharton (
November 9,
1664 -
March 5,
1695),
English writer, was descended from Thomas, 2nd
Baron Wharton (1520-1572), being a son of the Rev. Edmund Wharton, vicar of
Worstead,
Norfolk.
Born at Worstead, Wharton was educated by his father, and then at
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Both his industry and his talents were exceptional, and his university career was brilliant. In
1686 he entered the service of the ecclesiastical historian, the Rev. William Cave (1637-1713), whom he helped in his literary work; but considering that his assistance wasn't sufficiently appreciated he soon forsook this employment.
In
1687 he was ordained deacon, and in
1688 he made the acquaintance of the
archbishop of Canterbury,
William Sancroft, under whose generous patronage some of his literary work was done. The archbishop, who had a very high opinion of Wharton's character and talents, made him one of his
chaplains, and presented him to the Kentish living of Sundridge, and afterwards to that of Chartham in the same county.
In
1689 he took the oath of allegiance to
William and Mary, but he wrote a severe criticism of
bishop Burnet's
History of the Reformation, and it was partly owing to the bishop's hostility that he didn't obtain further preferment in the English church. He died on the 5th of March 1695, and was buried in
Westminster Abbey.
Wharton's most valuable work is his
Anglia sacra, a collection of the lives of English archbishops and bishops, which was published in two volumes in 1691. Some of these were written by Wharton himself; others were borrowed from early writers. His other writings include, in addition to his criticism of the
History of the Reformation,
A treatise of the celibacy of the clergy (1688); The enthusiasm of the
Church of Rome demonstrated in some observations upon the life of
Ignatius Loyola (1688) ; and
A defence of pluralities (1692, new ed. 1703).
In the Lambeth Library there are sixteen volumes of Wharton's manuscripts. Describing him as "this wonderful man,"
Stubbs says that Wharton did for the elucidation of English Church history "more than any one before or since." A life of Wharton is included in
George D'Oyly's
Life of W. Sancroft (1821).
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