WHEELER (Sir George), a learned traveller and divine, was the son of colonel Wheeler of Charing in Kent, and was born in 1650 at Breda, where his parents as royalists were then in exile. He travelled through various parts of Greece and the East in company with Dr James Spon of Lyons; and taking orders on his return, was installed a prebend of Durham, made vicar of Basingstoke, and afterwards rector of Houghton le Spring. He published an account of his Travels in 1682 in folio; and in 1686, his Observations on ancient edifices of Churches yet remaining in the East, compared with Eusebius: also the Protestant Monastery, or Christian Economics. He died in 1724.