[3] By 1704 Rooke was threatening to resign when he found out that William Whetstone who lacked Wishart's seniority had been promoted to rear-admiral of the blue in preference to his captain.

Rooke noted that Wishart had recently moved to Yorkshire with his wife as way of mitigation of Jacobite leanings.

[4] After having been defeated as a Tory parliamentary candidate for Portsmouth in the 1710 election, he was successfully returned on petition the following year, sitting until 1715.

When George I of Great Britain became king, Wishart lost his line management role and he died childless on 30 May 1723.

[8] He married Cordelia Raper of Bedale, North Yorkshire and lived at 53 High Street, Portsmouth.

Lord Louis Mountbatten was her commanding officer for a time, and when he was trying to inspire their crew he joked that the ship had the best name in the navy making the pun, "Our Father Wishart in Heaven..."[11]