John Lloyd Wharton

John Lloyd Wharton (18 April 1837 – 11 July 1912)

Wharton was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received his B.A. in 1859. He was admitted to the Inner Temple on 14 April 1959 and was called to the bar on 27 January 1862. He later received an honorary D.C.L. from Durham University in 1887.

Political career He stood as a Member of Parliament for the City of Durham in the 1868 general election but failed to get elected.

Personal life Wharton married Susan Frances Duncombe Shafto on 20 January 1870 but she died in 1872.

In the 1911 Census of Wetherby he described himself as a 73-year-old widower and a Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire and Durham and a director of the North Eastern Railway.