Catalogue description AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR GEORGE WHELER

Autobiography of Sir George Wheler (1650-1723), divine and traveller, describing his early years and education at Lincoln College, Oxford, up to 1673 when he left England to travel abroad, written in 1701 (ff.1-32).

Also a letter from Wheler to Archdeacon William Beveridge, later (1704) Bishop of St. Asaph, from Durham, 25 March 1701, describing obstacles to the comprehension of Dissenters in the Church of England (copy) (f.33); letter from the same to an unnamed correspondent, from Durham, 6 August 1703, about his family history (copy by Wheler) (f.37); various genealogical notes (ff.39-42, 45); letter from John Kettlewell, divine, to Wheler, from Lincoln College, Oxford, 3 September 1681, discussing a patron for him (f.43).

Given by the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, 1986.

An account of the provenance of the papers by E.G. Wheler, of Clarendon Leys, Warwick, 14 February 1909 (ff.iv-v). Bookplates of Granville Wheler, 1752, and Edward Galton Wheler, and ownership inscription of Brent Gratian-Maxfield, 1963.

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