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REVEREND DR GEORGE BOMFORD WHEELER
Born in 1805 - Died in 21st October 1877
Of Ballysax, county Kildare, Ireland, he was probably the son of James Wheeler. He was born in 1805, and died in 1877.
He married twice. By his first wife Ellen Charlotte Stewart Mathias, daughter of Reverend Benjamin M Mathias, whom he married on 4th July 1838, he had no children. She died on 20th March 1844 in childbirth.
He married secondly Elizabeth (Eliza) Shaw in 1844, who died 6th June 1910. They had children:
1 George Pearson BL, born 22nd April 1846.
2 Mabel Ingram, born in 1846, and died on 6th June 1910. She married Lieutenant-Colonel George Lyddon Morley.
3 Gerald John BL, born in 1849. He married Emily Frances Morley.
4 Arthur William, born 12th October 1850, died 19th August 1902.
5 Helen Sarah, born in 1855. She married Captain Robert Alexander Ogilvy JP DL.
6 Lorenzo Richard, born in May 1856. He married Catherine Ann Morley.
7 Mabel Maud.
He was the author of 50 and more books, being classical translations and educational works. He edited Homer, Horace, Cicero and Ovid, and published a Latin Grammar and a new edition of Murray's English Grammar. After a distinguished career at the University of Dublin (taking a scholarship in 1832, and a senior classical moderatorship in 1834), he entered the Church, and was for a large part of his life rector of Ballysax, County Kildare. For many years he was editor of the Irish Times, and in that position displayed wonderful temper and an unflagging industry, which seemed unaffected by age. He died from the results of an accident, at Newbridge, 21st October 1877, aged 72, and was buried at Ballysax.
Sources:
Information supplied by Michael Wheeler.