Goodwin Wharton

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Goodwin Wharton (8 March 1653 – 28 October 1704) was a Whig politician, a younger son of Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton and Jane Goodwin.

An avid mystic, alchemist and treasure hunter, he sent two expeditions to Tobermory to try to raise a galleon from the Spanish Armada wrecked there. Some of his treasure-hunting was done on the advice of his lover, the medium Mary Parish, who claimed to have placed him in contact with faries and eventually God and his angels.

Out of favor under James II for his pronounced Whiggery, he rose to greater eminence after the Glorious Revolution, and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of cavalry.

He was one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty from 1697 until 1699.

Parliament of England
Preceded by Thomas Pelham Sir Thomas Littleton, Bt	Member for East Grinstead with William Jephson 1679–1681	Succeeded by Sir Cyril Wyche Henry Powle
Preceded by Sir John Lowther, Bt Henry Wharton	Member for Westmorland with Sir John Lowther, Bt 1689–1690	Succeeded by Sir John Lowther, Bt Sir Christopher Musgrave, Bt
Preceded by Thomas Tollemache Charles Godfrey	Member for Malmesbury with Sir James Long 1690–1692 George Booth 1692–1695 Craven Howard 1695–1696 1690–1696	Succeeded by Craven Howard Sir Thomas Skipwith, Bt
Preceded by Sir Orlando Gee Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bt	Member for Cockermouth with Sir Charles Gerard, Bt 1695–1698	Succeeded by William Seymour George Fletcher
Preceded by The Viscount Newhaven Henry Neale	Member for Buckinghamshire with The Viscount Newhaven 1698–1701, 1702–1704 Robert Dormer 1701–1702 1698–1704	Succeeded by The Viscount Newhaven Sir Richard Temple, Bt