Francis Wheeler (priest)

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Francis Wheeler was an English priest in the second half of the 17th century.

Wheeler was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. [1] He held the living at Willey, Shropshire from 1680; and the archdeaconry of Salop in Herefordshire from 1684. [2] holding both positions until his death in December 1686.

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References

  1. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Wheeler, Francis"  . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714 . Oxford: Parker and Co via Wikisource.
  2. Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Salop  . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.  482–485  via Wikisource.