10s., demonstrator of plants and præfectus horti of the apothecaries' garden at Chelsea in succession to William Curtis, author of the ‘Flora Londinensis.’ He was already a fellow of the Linnean Society. On 18 March 1778 he was appointed, at a salary of 37l. At an early period he showed a great fondness for botany, a taste which was fostered by William Hudson, the botanical demonstrator at the Society of Apothecaries. James's Street, apothecaries to the king and queen, and in 1767 he entered St. Paul's school he was apprenticed to Messrs. Here he became an excellent classical scholar.Īfter leaving St. He received his elementary education under David Garrow, the father of Sir William Garrow, at Hadley, Middlesex, and was admitted a pupil at St. Thomas Wheeler was born on 24 June 1754 in Basinghall Street, London, where his father practised as a surgeon. His grandfather, John Wheeler, surgeon to the Bridewell and Bethlehem hospitals, died in 1740 during his year of office as master of the Barber-Surgeons' Company. Cibber, the actress, was his father's first cousin. WHEELER, THOMAS (1754–1847), botanist, was second son of Thomas Wheeler by his wife Susannah Rivington.
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