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Wharton's maternal grandfather, Samuel R. Fisher ran a prosperous mercantile business and shipping packet line between Philadelphia and London, England.

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At the time of the London gentlemen's club, where there was a meeting place for every interest, including poetry, philosophy and politics, Philip, Duke of Wharton's Hell-Fire Club was, according to Blackett-Ord, a satirical " gentlemans club " which was known to ridicule religion, catching onto the then-current trend in England of blaspheming religion.

The Greyhound Tavern was one of the meeting places used regularly, but because women were not to be seen in taverns, the meetings were also held at members ' houses and at Wharton's riding club.

Like Wharton's Club, rumours of Black Masses, orgies and Satan or demon worship were well circulated during the time the Club was around.

Crawford said one of the main reasons she signed with Warner Bros. was because she wanted to play the character " Mattie " in a proposed 1944 film version of Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome ( 1911 ).

Wharton's own Newport cottage was called Land's End.

With the help of her mother and her aunt's ( Edith Wharton's ) social connections she was introduced to many prominent people, which led to working on a variety of significant projects on America's East Coast, Midwest, and California, and England.

It is possible that Wharton's impressions actually originated from performances at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1880s ( she was still a child in the early 1870s ).

In the Autumn of 1862, the town was held by John Wharton's Confederate cavalry, who skirmished with Maj. Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden's men north of Mount Washington along Floyds Fork on October 1.

Gen. John Wharton's Confederate cavalry unit was stationed in town briefly and Gen. Joseph Wheeler's command captured a Union supply train here on December 30, 1862.

Wharton's acceptance rate in 2012 was 7 %.

" ( Consuelo, Duchess of Manchester was also the basis of the character Conchita Closson in Edith Wharton's unfinished novel The Buccaneers.

It was unfavorably compared to Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, which was published that same year.

Wharton's youth was spent in the family's house near Spruce and 4th Streets in downtown Philadelphia and at the country mansion " Bellevue ".

Wharton's father was a typical gentleman, and did not hold a regular job because he had several illnesses, but oversaw his estate, served on the Philadelphia School Board, and was active with his wife Deborah in the Hicksite ministry.

On 14 December 1542, Thomas Wharton's report of the battle was read to Privy Council, and they ordered that Scottish prisoners entering London should wear a red St Andrew's cross.

His grave was given a headstone in 1997 after a campaign by anti-racism campaigners Football Unites, Racism Divides for recognition of Wharton's achievements.

' Wharton's working title for the book was " The year of the Rose ".

Wharton's sharpshooters quickly drove back Thoburn's skirmishers who occupied a valley between the ridge on which the Confederates were lined and the high ground along the riverbank where the first of two federal lines was formed in front of a stone fence.

Wharton's major work is his Anglia sacra, a collection of the lives of English archbishops and bishops, which was published in two volumes in 1691.

The only lasting effect from the paper would be the incorporation of Wharton's libertine characteristics in the character of Lovelace in Richardson's Clarissa, although Wharton would be only one of many models of libertine behaviour that Richardson would find in his life.

In contrast to the contribution of Wharton's jelly, cooling causes only temporary vasoconstriction.

Wharton's yield, or the percent of students who matriculate after being accepted, is about 78 %, a number matched only by Harvard ( 80 %).

Wharton's wife died in 1726, and he married Maria Theresa O ' Neill O ' Beirne only three months later.

Wharton's niece, Beatrix Jones Farrand, designed the kitchen garden and the drive ; Farrand was the only woman of the eleven founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

in Economics, Wharton's curriculum is very different from that of a typical economics major ( which the University of Pennsylvania offers through its College of Arts and Sciences ).

Jeffrey Lilburn notes that some find “ the suffering endured by Wharton's characters is excessive and unjustified ”, but others see the difficult moral questions addressed and note that it “ provides insightful commentary on the American economic and cultural realities that produced and allowed such suffering .” Trilling and other critics found Ethan Frome to have no moral content, but Elizabeth Ammons disagreed with that concept.

The power of Wharton's name and eloquence was such that Walpole offered Wharton a pardon and forgiveness of his debts if he were to agree to leave off writing.

The admissions process for Wharton's undergraduate program is extremely competitive.

Over 50 % of Wharton's typical undergraduate class of 500 students go into investment banking with the majority employed at a bulge bracket firm earning a typical base salary of $ 70, 000, a typical signing bonus of $ 10, 000, and a year-end bonus for first year analysts as high as $ 100, 000.

Wharton's MBA for Executives is a two-year, lockstep, weekend residential program with the same curriculum, campus classroom time, credit requirements and elective choices as the full-time MBA program.

Fred has also been Visiting Professor in Social Systems Science at Wharton's Department of Social Systems Sciences and spent 1967-68 at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford.

The chief authority for the bishop's life is William de Chambre, printed in Wharton's Anglia Sacra, 1691, and in Historiae conelmensis scriptores tres, Surtees Soc., 1839, who describes him as an amiable and excellent man, charitable in his diocese, and the liberal patron of many learned men, among these being Thomas Bradwardine, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Fitzralph, afterwards Archbishop of Armagh, the enemy of the mendicant orders, Walter Burley, who translated Aristotle, John Mauduit the astronomer, Robert Holkot and Richard de Kilvington.

Wharton's family had long roots in Newport, Rhode Island and he summered there with his extended family at the family house on Washington Street for many decades.

In the early 1890s, the government surveyed sites on Conanicut Island for a coastal fort that would command the entrance to the bay, and took some of Wharton's property along with other nearby summer estates, starting construction of nearby Fort Wetherill in 1896.

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has its California campus on the top floor, where Wharton's MBA for Executives program is offered.

Wharton's own sympathies were conservative in religious matters ; he had voted against the act of 1549 enabling priests to marry, against that of 1549 for the destruction of the old service books, and against the Second Act of Uniformity 1552, though he had acted as chantry commissioner under the Dissolution Act 1547.

In 1846 the Vestry contracted James Gallier, son of the famous Gallier who designed the second church, to build the new church following Hawks ' and Wharton's plans, for $ 56, 000.

Brevet Major Gale, although next senior at the time of Wharton's death on September 1, 1818, had to battle for the job.

Wharton's debts were impossible for him to overcome.

The ayuntamientos at San Felipe, Nacogdoches, Gonzales and Liberty half-heartedly apologized for their participation, and Wharton's mission was cancelled.

After taking the opportunity to travel for a few months, he returned to England in early 1665 and was back at Wharton's Quainton estate before the end of the year.