Wheler baronets

There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Wheler, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2008.

The Wheler Baronetcy, of the City of Westminster in the County of London, was created in the Baronetage of England on 11 August 1660 for William Wheler, Member of Parliament for Westbury and Queenborough, with remainder to his cousin Charles Wheler.

The Wheler Baronetcy, of Otterden in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 29 June 1925 for Granville Wheler, Member of Parliament for Faversham. The title became extinct on his death two years later.

Charles Lyttelton, a former Lord Bishop of Carlisle, and from an old Worcestershire family, said that the Whelers were seated in Worcestershire as early as Edward II. and bore coat armour.

In a manuscript volume in the possession of Hanbury, Esq. of Kilmash, Northamptonshire, entitled, Worcestershire Collected, by Sir William Dethick, Knt. Garter King of Arms, 1569, since enlarged by others.

Old arms of Wheler; for, in the east window of the chancel of Martin Hussingtree, in Worcestershire, these arms are quarterly:

Nash, in his Collections for the history of Worcestershire, says, that William Wheler presented to the living of Martin, jure Johanne uxoris sue sororis Thome Pyrye defuncti. Be that as it may, William Wheler, with Joan, his wife, had two sons:

George Wheler, of Martin Hussingtree, in Worcestershire, the eldest son of William Wheler of Crouche (see above), married Elizabeth, daughter of J. Arnold (or Hernold), of Higham, in Gloucestershire, with whom he had two sons:

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