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Philip Wharton
1834–1860
Remembered under the pen name Philip Wharton, this short-lived Victorian writer worked across biography, history, fiction, and translation. He also collaborated with his mother, the novelist and historian Katherine Thomson, on lively books about British society and famous women.
3 Audiobooks
Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire
by Mary Robinson, Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 2
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 1
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton
About the author
Born John Cockburn Thomson in London in 1834, he published as Philip Wharton. Reliable library and reference sources identify Philip Wharton as a pseudonym and describe him as the son of physician Anthony Todd Thomson and writer Katherine Thomson.
He was educated at Bonn and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he earned a B.A. in 1857. Reference sources also note his interest in Sanskrit and credit him with a translation of the Bhagavad Gita, alongside other writing in history and fiction.
His name appears on books such as The Queens of Society and The Wits and Beaux of Society, written with his mother, who published as Grace Wharton. He died young in 1860, leaving behind a small but varied body of Victorian work.