The falsest of mankind in all relations but one, he was the truest of Whigs.

The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt; but to the politics of his family he stedfastly adhered through all the temptations and dangers of half a century.

In small things and in great his devotion to his party constantly appeared.

He had the finest stud in England; and his delight was to win plates from Tories.

Sometimes when, in a distant county, it was fully expected that the horse of a High Church squire would be first on the course, down came, on the very eve of the race, Wharton's Careless, who had ceased to run at Newmarket merely for want of competitors, or Wharton's Gelding, for whom Lewis the Fourteenth had in vain offered a thousand pistoles.