WHELER, Richard (d.1614), of Lincoln’s Inn and Thames Ditton, Surr.

1st s. of Sir Edmund Wheler, goldsmith (the business later turned into Child’s Bank), of London and Riding Court, Datchet, Bucks., by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Richard Hanbury, goldsmith, of London. educ. Trinity Coll. Camb. matric. pens. 1562, scholar 1563, BA 1565-6, MA 1569; L. Inn, sp. adm. 1566, called 1574, bencher 1586. m. Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Pitt of Steepleton Iwerne, Dorset and Hartley Waspade, Hants, s.p.Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xv, xvii), 341; Vis. Worcs. (Harl. Soc. xxvii), 145-6; Hilton Price, Handbook of London Bankers, 30-1; Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. lxiv), 195.