Edward Ross Wharton (1844–1896) was an English academic, known as a classical scholar and genealogist.
Born at Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales on 4 August 1844, he was second son of Henry James Wharton, vicar of Mitcham; his mother was a daughter of Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, and a younger brother, Henry Thornton Wharton (1846–1895) was a medical man known as an ornithologist and for an edition of Sappho.
He was educated as a day-boy at Charterhouse School under Richard Elwyn and elected to a scholarship at Trinity College, Oxford in 1862.
[1] In 1868 Wharton was elected to a fellowship at Jesus College, where he was assistant tutor and Latin lecturer.
[1] In 1870 Wharton married Marie, a daughter of Samuel Hicks Withers of Willesden, who died in 1899.