Thomas Wharton (died 1622)

Sir Thomas Wharton (c 1588 – 17 April 1622) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622.

He purchased the estate of Aske Hall at Easby, Yorkshire from Lady Eleanor Bowes, a distant relative early in 1611[1] and was knighted at Whitehall on 25 April 1611.

[2] In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Westmorland and re-elected in 1621.

His elder brother George had been killed in a duel in 1609, and thus his eldest son young Philip inherited the barony when the 3rd Baron died in 1625.

Wharton's second son Thomas was also MP for Westmorland.

Aske Hall, Easby, Yorkshire in 1880
His wife, Lady Philadelphia Carey