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Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet (4 April 1617 – 12 August 1681) was an English Royalist soldier and astrologer, also known as a poet. ==Life== He was the son of a blacksmith in Westmorland. He went to Oxford to study, though not admitted to the University. He then returned to Westmorland, and in 1642 sold his family property, and raised his own troop of horse for the Royalist cause. He shared defeat at Stow-on-the-Wold, in 1643.〔Stephen C. Manganiello, ''The Concise Encyclopedia of the Revolutions and Wars of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1639-1660'' (2004), p. 576.〕 He is said to have served under Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading.〔http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WES/Kendal/history.htm〕 He then went to Charles I at Oxford, and was given a paymaster position in the Ordnance, under Sir John Heydon.〔Theophilus Cibber, (''The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1753) Volume II )〕 At this period he became a friend of Elias Ashmole, helping him to a military commission.〔http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Elias_Ashmole〕 Wharton attended, with Ashmole, the first meeting in 1647 of the Society of Astrologers at Gresham College. 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.〔Benjamin Woolley, ''The Herbalist'' (2004), p. 250.〕 He was imprisoned in 1649, and might have been executed but his former opponent William Lilly spoke up for him with Bulstrode Whitelocke.〔http://www.skyscript.co.uk/lilly.html〕 He was released by the intervention of Ashmole, who made him steward on his Berkshire estates. At the English Restoration of 1660, he was reinstated as a paymaster. He became Treasurer of the Ordnance in 1670, an office he held until his death. He was made a baronet in 1677. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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