John Lloyd Wharton PC (18 April 1837 – 11 July 1912)[1] was a Barrister and a Conservative Party politician.

[3] His uncle was William Lloyd Wharton, a barrister and chairman of the North Eastern Railway.

[2] He was then the Member of Parliament for Ripon for 20 years until he was defeated at the 1906 general election by Henry Finnis Blosse Lynch with a majority of 313.

[2] He became a Privy Councillor in 1897[2] and in December 1901 he was appointed a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John.

[10] In the 1911 Census of Wetherby he described himself as a 73-year-old widower and a Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire and Durham and a director of the North Eastern Railway.