Edward Galton Wheler (1850–1913)
Edward Galton Wheler-Galton (1913–1935)
1850–1935
Land agent, land owner, and magistrate. Son of Edward and Elizabeth Anne Wheler; a grandson of Samuel Tertius Galton. Married Mary Louisa Dugdale (1863/4–1955) in 1890. Estate agent in High Legh, Cheshire, 1881; commissioner to the duke of Northumberland in Alnwick, 1891, 1901; retired to Claverdon Leys, Warwickshire, by 1911. Assumed the additional name of Galton in 1913.
Sources
Burke’s landed gentry 1925
Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/3508/38/7), 1891 (RG12/4264/76/1), 1901 (RG13/4840/134/45), 1911 (RG14/18807)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 2 July 2019)
Bibliography
Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.
