Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet

Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet (4 April 1617 – 12 August 1681) was an English military officer, astrologer and poet who served as Treasurer of the Ordnance from 1670 to 1681.

He then returned to Westmorland, and in 1642 sold his family property, and raised his own troop of horse for the Royalist cause.

[2] He then went to Charles I at Oxford, and was given a paymaster position in the Ordnance, under Sir John Heydon.

It included both William Lilly and John Booker, Parliamentarians who had been on the other side of the astrological pamphlet exchanges in the Civil War that had ended in 1646.

He then issued an almost unbroken annual sequence, using his own name from 1645, not publishing in 1646, but expanding the work with history and continuing from 1647 to 1666.