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2 unusual facts about Henry Wharton


Battle of Chester

The charge against Augustine was challenged or rejected by scholars of the 18th and 19th century such as Elizabeth Elstob, Henry Spelman, Henry Wharton, and Jeremy Collier.

Robert of Winchester

He was author of De actibus Willelmi et Henrici episcoporum Wintoniæ, printed in Henry Wharton's Anglia Sacra, biographies of William Giffard and Henry of Blois.


Paul Colomiès

Vossius introduced him to William Sancroft, who collated him (after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685), to the rectory of Eynesford in Kent on 18 November 1687, having previously made him a librarian (perhaps assistant to Henry Wharton, recruited by Sancroft at the same period) at Lambeth Palace.

William Sancroft

Sancroft was a patron of Henry Wharton (1664–1695), the divine and church historian, to whom on his deathbed he entrusted his manuscripts and the remains of Archbishop Laud (published in 1695).


see also

Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton

Wharton and Lennox left Carlisle on the 20th, sending on Henry Wharton to burn Drumlanrig and Durisdeer.