Wharton, Francis, 1820-1889 (American legal writer and educationalist)
Dates
- Existence: 1820 - 1889
Biography
Francis Wharton, born 1820, was educated at Yale and admitted to the bar in Pennsylvnia in 1843. He served as assistant attorney-general in 1845 and edited the publication 'North American and United States Gazette' in Philadelphia. He served as Professor of English, History and Literature at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio from 1856-1863.
Wharton took orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1862 and was rector of St. Paul's Church, Brookline, Massachusetts from 1863-1869. He lectured on ecclesiastical polity and canon law in the Protestant Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1871-1881. He travelled throughout Europe for several years, after which time he gave lectures on criminal law in Washington, DC, serving as professor of criminal law at Columbian (now George Washington) University. From 1885-1888 he was solicitor of the Department of State.
Wharton's interests included the hymnology of the church, and Christian apologetics. He was also a foremost American authority on international law, and wrote several works on criminal law (e.g. 'Wharton's Rule of Concert of Action').
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Letter from Francis Wharton to James Lorimer, 9 June 1883
Letter in English from Francis Wharton to James Lorimer on the subject of an early copy of Lorimer's publication "The Institutes of the Law of Nations" (published one year later in 1874) and Wharton's book "A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws" (1872), dated 9 June 1883.