Wheen
Wheen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Arthur Wesley Wheen (1897–1971), Australian soldier, translator, and museum librarian *Francis Wheen (born 1957), British journalist, writer, and broadcaster *John Gladwell Wheen (died 1929), Methodist minister *Natalie Wheen Natalie Wheen (born 1947) is an English writer and radio broadcasting, radio presenter, broadcasting on the BBC and on Classic FM (UK), Classic FM. Wheen, born in Shanghai, was a presenter of BBC Radio 4's arts programme ''Kaleidoscope (UK radio ...

Francis Wheen
Francis James Baird Wheen (born 22 January 1957) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster. Early life and education Wheen was born into an army familyNicholas Wro"A life in writing" ''The Guardian'', 29 August 2009 and educated at two independent schools: Copthorne Preparatory School near Crawley, West Sussex, and Harrow School in north west London. Career Running away from Harrow at 16 "to join the alternative society," Wheen had early periods as a "dogsbody" at '' The Guardian'' and the '' New Statesman'' and attended Royal Holloway College, University of London, after a period at a crammer. At Harrow, he was briefly a contemporary of Mark Thatcher who has been a subject of his journalism. Wheen is the author of several books, including a biography of Karl Marx which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1999, and has been translated into twenty languages. He followed this with a notional "biography" of '' Das Kapital'', which follows the creation and publication o ...
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John Gladwell Wheen
John Gladwell Wheen (died 1929) was a Methodist minister. He served as President-General of the Methodist Church of Australasia from 1926 to 1929. Early life John Gladwell Wheen was born at Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, the son of Edwin Wheen. As a young man he was employed by the town clerk of Sheffield, and was later appointed secretary of the Sheffield Public Hospital and Dispensary. He was associated with the Carver Street chapel, and became a departmental superintendent of the Red Hill school, one of the largest in the city, and famous as a source of ministers and mission workers. Here he was associated with the late Rev. J. Woodhouse, who was a member of his class, and who later became his brother-in-law. Wheen immigrated to Australia in 1882 by the ''Sabroan (''later the training ship ''Tingira'') and settled in Victoria. Religious life Wheen entered the Methodist home mission service in 1883, becoming a minister in 1884. He successfully organised several importa ...
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Arthur Wesley Wheen
Arthur Wesley Wheen, (9 February 1897 – 15 March 1971) was an Australian soldier, translator and museum librarian. He is best known for translating the work of Erich Maria Remarque into English, beginning with the classic war novel ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' in 1929. Early life and education He was the son of Clara and Harold Wheen, who was a Wesleyan Minister. His father was transferred to Sydney in 1910, where young Arthur attended Gordon Public School and Sydney Boys High School. In 1915, he won admission to Sydney Teachers College and later attended the University of Sydney, where he studied the fine arts. First World War Wheen was eighteen years and eight months old when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 15 October 1915. Two months later, he embarked as a reinforcement for the 1st Australian Battalion and arrived in Egypt when the Australian Army in Egypt was being expanded from two to four divisions. He was transferred to the newly formed 54th Batt ...
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