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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR GEORGE WHELER

Catalogue reference: MS 3286

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This record is a file about the AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR GEORGE WHELER dating from 1701.

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Reference
MS 3286
Title
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR GEORGE WHELER
Date
1701
Description

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).

Held by
Lambeth Palace Library
Language
English
Physical description
x + 58 folios
Immediate source of acquisition

Given by the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, 1986.

Physical condition
Bound in calf by Waters of Newcastle, 20th century
Custodial history

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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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR GEORGE WHELER