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George Wheler (travel writer)

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Wheler bequeathed his Greek and Latin manuscripts to Lincoln College, and his dried plants, arranged in four volumes, to the University of Oxford, to which in 1683 he had presented marbles and antiquities brought from Greece. He left his coins (English, Greek, and Roman) to the Dean and chapter of
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The Protestant Monastery; or Christian Œconomicks, containing Directions for the Religious Conduct of a Family
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In October 1673 he set out for a tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy, and was at first accompanied by
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He died at Durham, after a short illness, on 15 January 1724 New Style date, and was buried in the
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Durham. By his will he secured a provision for the minister officiating at the chapel in
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Essays by Divers Hands. Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Account of Churches and Places of Assembly of the Primitive Christians
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Wheler returned to England in November 1676. In 1677 he was elected a
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Wilson, N. G. (January 2008) , "Wheler, Sir George (1651–1724)",
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About 1683 he took holy orders. In 1684 he received a canonry in
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New Series, Volume 29, 1942, p. 1–38, and Nigel Guy Wilson:
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Portrait of Sir George Wheler, engraved by William Bromley
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Sir George Wheler and his Travels in Greece, 1650–1724.
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Sir George Wheler


Jacob Spon
Charing
Life Guards
Egerton, Kent
New Style date
Breda
Netherlands
Wye, Kent
Lincoln College, Oxford
Middle Temple
George Hickes
Jean-Foy Vaillant
Venice
Jacob Spon
Zante
Delos
Constantinople
Prusa ad Olympum
Thyatira
Ephesus
Delphi
Corinth
Attica
University of Oxford
Ashmolean Museum
Hypericum
John Ray

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