Henry Thornton Wharton
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A younger brother, Henry Thornton Wharton (1846–1895), born at Mitcham, was educated at Charterhouse and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in natural science in 1871. He was best known for a book on Sappho—memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translation (1885)—which passed through four editions. He was also one of the joint compilers of the official list of British birds issued by the British Ornithologists' Union (1883), his special task being to supervise and elucidate the Latin nomenclature; and he contributed a chapter on the local flora to a work entitled Hampstead Hill (1889). He died on 22 August 1895 at his home, Madresfield, 2 Acol Road, Hampstead, where he had practised for some years as a surgeon (MRCS, 1874). He left a widow, Caroline Wharton, and was buried in the neighbouring Hampstead cemetery in Fortune Green.
J. S. Cotton, rev. Richard Smail
Sources
E. R. Wharton, The Whartons of Wharton Hall (1898) [incl. memoir by J. S. Cotton repr. from Academy, 13 June 1896] · R. L. Arrowsmith, ed., Charterhouse register, 1769–1872 (1974) · Foster, Alum. Oxon. · private information (1899) · Boase, Mod. Eng. biog. · CGPLA Eng. & Wales (1895) [Henry Thornton Wharton]
Archives
Bodl. Oxf.
Likenesses
photograph, Jesus College, Oxford
Wealth at death
£5541 13s. 5d.: probate, 11 July 1896, CGPLA Eng. & Wales · £389 13s. 11d.—Henry Thornton Wharton: probate, 11 Sept 1895, CGPLA Eng. & Wales
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J. S. Cotton, ‘Wharton, Edward Ross (1844–1896)’, rev. Richard Smail, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://proxy.bostonathenaeum.org:2055/view/article/29164, accessed 24 Oct 2017]
Edward Ross Wharton (1844–1896): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29164
Henry Thornton Wharton (1846–1895): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29168