George Wheler ( 1650 - 1723 )

Birth: Breda, Holland (1650) Death: Durham, County Durham (15 January 1723) Burial: Galilee chapel, Durham Cathedral, County Durham Profession: Clergyman, Church of England Research Field: Botany Education: Wye School, Kent; Lincoln College, Oxford (matriculated 1668); MA (1683), DD (by diploma 1702); Middle Temple (admitted 1671) Career: Travelled to France, Switzerland, Italy and Greece, and gave rare plants to John Ray (FRS 1667) and other botanists (1673-1676); ordained (c1683); Canon of Durham (1684); Vicar of Basingstoke, Hampshire (1685); built a chapel in Spitalfields, London, mainly at his own expense (1693); Rector of Winston, Co Durham (1706); Rector of Houghton-Le-Spring, Co Durham (1710-death); endowed a school for girls at Houghton-Le-Spring and gave his collection of antiquities and botanical specimens to Oxford University and his manuscripts and books to Lincoln College Honours: Kt 1682 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 13/12/1677 Proposers: Charles Howard.