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Person
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Wharton, Philip Wharton, Duke of, 1698-1731.
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Wharton was appointed Jacobite ambassador to the Holy Roman Empire in 1725. King James in this instance is James Stewart, the 'Old Pretender' (d. 1766), who considered himself to be James III.