appointed Lord High Treasurer. In this capacity he acquired great unpopularity, but succeeded in retaining the king's favour, and in Feb. 1632-3 was created Earl of Portland. He died 13 March, 1634-5, and, though a Catholic, was buried in Winchester Cathedral. He is frequently confounded with his contemporary. Sir Richard Weston, Baron of the Exchequer, who was a member of the Inner Temple.
Admitted 19 June, 1742.
Son and heir of Thomas Whateley (sic), of Epsom, Surrey (and brother of Joseph Whately, the father of the celebrated Archbishop). He was called to the Bar 21 June, 1751. He sat in Parliament from 1761 to 1768 for Ludgershall, Wilts, and from the latter date to his death, for Castle Rising, and was a keen politician and a close friend of George Grenville, though afterwards a follower of Lord North—a change which subjected him to the satire of "Junius." He became a Commissioner of the Board of Trade in 1771 and Under-Secretary of State for the Northern Department. He died 26 May, 1772.
He was the author of political pamphlets on The Budget (1665), and The Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies (1769). Also of Observations on Modem Gardening (1770), and of a more literary work on Some of Shakespeare's Characters, highly praised by his nephew, the Archbishop.
Admitted 12 December, 1834.
Second son of John Wheeler of Manchester, in the Grammar School of which town he was educated, proceeding thence to Cambridge, where he graduated LL.B. in 1846 and LL.D. in 1858. He commenced his law practice as a solicitor and was called to the Bar 16 Jan. 1846. In 1861 he became Serjeant at- Law. In 1860 he was Judge of the Salford Court of Record, and two years later made County Court Judge of the Liverpool district, whence he was transferred to the metropolis in 1873. He was a J.P. for Lancashire and Middlesex. He died 17 June, 1883.
Admitted 4 July, 1671.
Son and heir of Charles Wheler of Charing, Kent. He was educated at Oxford, where he was created M.A. in 1683 and D.D. in 1702. Previous to this he had travelled much on the Continent, and in 1678 had published an account of a Journey into Greece, then a practically unknown country. In 1682 he was knighted and in the following year took Holy Orders and became a Canon of Durham (1684), in which city he died 15 Jan. 1723,
Besides the above work he published an Account of the Churches of the Primitive Christians (1689), and The Protestant Monastery, or Directions for the Religious Conduct of a Family. He founded a chapel in Spital Fields, long known as Wheler Chapel, now St. Mary's Church. In 1696 he presented a copy of his work, A Journey into Greece, to the Library of the Inn, "per amicum suum Fran. Morgan Ar. existent. Thesaurã."
