Wharton, Philip, Duke of, an able man, but unprincipled, who led a life of extravagance; professed loyalty to the existing government in England; intrigued with the Stuarts, and was convicted of high-treason, and died in Spain in a miserable condition (1698‒1731).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Weymouth * Whately, Richard