Michael Mortimer Wheeler

Michael Mortimer Wheeler (8 January 1915 – 7 August 1992) was a British lawyer. The son of archaeologists Mortimer and Tessa Wheeler, he attended the Dragon School and Rugby School before going on to study law at Christ Church, Oxford. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Artillery regiment commanded by his father, who unconventionally commissioned him as a second lieutenant. By the end of the war he had risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel and was mentioned in dispatches. After the war he returned to practising law. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1961, elected a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1967, and Treasurer in 1986. He also served as a deputy High Court judge for fifteen years, before his retirement in 1986.^[1]

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