Jacobite Creation
In 1716 Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton, was created Duke of Northumberland, together with other subsidiary titles in the Jacobite Peerage, by The Old Pretender. The title had no legal validity in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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