Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Family and Education
b. c. 1601, 1st s. of John Wheler of London and Middleburg, Zeeland, and 1st w. Anne, da. of Henry Harvey of Chessington, Surr. educ. ?Netherlands. m. bef. 15 Nov. 1636, Elizabeth (bur. 20 Sept. 1670), da. and h. of Michael Cole of Kensington, Mdx. 1 da. (d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1617.Vis. Surr. 1530, 1572 and 1623 (Harl. Soc. xliii), 114; The Gen. n.s. xxv. 209-15; PROB11/179/528 (Henry Wheeler). Kntd. ?1648, (26 Aug. 1657);Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 223. bt. 11 Aug. 1660. d. 6 Aug. 1666.CB; The Gen. n.s. ii. 206.
Offices Held

Central: remembrancer of first fruits and tenths, exch. by July 1630 – aft.Feb. 1652, ?1660–aft. May. 1662.Add. 34195, f. 20; CSP Dom. 1651–2, p. 160; PRO30/24/4/109. Treas. royal army by July 1641.SP28/1d/389. Member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641;CJ ii. 288b. cttee. for examinations, 13 Jan. 1642;CJ ii. 375b. cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642;Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 402b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 31 Dec. 1642.CJ ii. 909a. Kpr. assessment recs. 24 Feb., 11 Apr., 3 Aug. 1643. Member, Westminster Assembly, 12 June 1643;A. and O. cttee. for sequestrations by 6 Oct. 1643;SP20/1, f. 58. cttee. for powder, match and bullet, 30 June 1645;LJ vii. 468a. cttee. for Westminster Abbey and Coll. 18 Nov. 1645. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647; removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 21 Nov. 1648;A. and O. for trade, 12 Dec. 1655.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 54 Treas. poll tax, Sept. 1660–1. Commr. for maimed soldiers, Dec. 1660–1.SR; ‘Sir William Wheler’, HP Commons 1660–1690.

Local: j.p. Westminster ?bef. 1641, 10 Sept. 1641 – Aug. 1661, Aug. 1664 – d.; Hants 22 Sept. 1648 – bef.Jan. 1650; Mdx. Jan. 1656 – Aug. 1661, Aug. 1664–d.CJ ii. 275b; C231/5, pp. 122, 323, 483; C231/6, pp. 136, 238; C193/13/5, ff. 66, 135v; C193/13/6, ff. 55v, 113v. Commr. subsidy, Westminster 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; Mdx. 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, Westminster 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1664; Mdx. 18 Oct. 1644, 1 June 1660; Mdx. and Westminster 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Wilts. 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Hants 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;SR; A. and O; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, Westminster, Wilts. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, Mdx. 3 Aug. 1643; defence of London, 17 Feb. 1644; defence of Wilts. 15 July 1644; New Model ordinance, Mdx. 17 Feb. 1645;A. and O. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 26 June 1645–?, 10 Jan. 1655–d.;C181/5, f. 255; C181/6, pp. 68, 319; C181/7, pp. 37, 253; LMA, WCS. Kent 17 June 1657;C181/6, p 228. Mdx. militia, 1 Aug. 1648;CJ v. 655b. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; Hants 2 Dec. 1648; Westminster, Wilts. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; Tower Hamlets 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Mercantile: dep. gov. Soc. of Mineral and Battery Works by 4 July 1644–d.BL, Loan 16 pt. ii, ff. 70v, 71v, 93v, 99v, 123, 246v. Member, Soc. of Mines Royal, 1663–d.‘Sir William Wheler’, HP Commons 1660–1690.

Religious: vestryman, St Margaret, Westminster. J.F. Merritt, Westminster 1640–60 (Manchester, 2013), 23.

Civic: freeman, Portsmouth 1655.Portsmouth Recs. ed. East, 355.

Parlimentarian
WHEELER, Sir William (c.1601-66), of Leigh Manor, Westbury, Wilts. and Rogers House, Cannon Row, Westminster.
: Canon Row, Westminster.
Likenesses

Likenesses: fun. monument, attrib. J. Latham, Derby Cathedral.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WHELER, William (c.1601-66), of Rogers, Canon Row, Westminster

Will
20 June 1665, pr. 6 July 1667.PROB11/324/367.
Estates
in right of wife, house in Canon Row, Westminster, and property in Kensington;The Gen. n.s. iii. 41 1633-bef. 1665, land at Nettleton and Draycote, Lincs.;Coventry Docquets, 645; C111/191. from 1638, manor of Westbury Leigh; from 1640, lease of manor of Westbury Priory, both in Wilts.;VCH Wilts. viii. 154, 158-9. properties in Spitalfields, London, inc. Brick House (bef. 1646) and north Lolesworth field (from 1649);Survey of London xxvii. 1-13, 39-51. from ?1649, manor of Datchett, Bucks.;VCH Bucks. iii. 252. bef. June 1665, manor of Ludborne and other land in Bratton, Brennridge, Ditton, Leigh Brook, Hawkridge, Heywood, North Bradley, Powley, Southwirk and Westbury, Wilts.; manor of Sherfield and other lands in parishes of Basing, Bramley, Collidge, Hartley, Sherfield, Stratfield Say, Stratfield Turges and Waspell, Hants.; tenements in St Mary Magdalen and St Katherine Creechurch, London; lands in Stepney, Mdx.; Water Lambeth, Surr.; Willington and Lillington, Kent; interest in Mineral and Battery Works Co.PROB11/324/367.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
Image