The Wheate Baronetcy, of

Glympton Glympton is a village and civil parish on the River Glyme about north of Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The 2001 Census recorded the parish's population as 80. The village and church are owned by the Glympton Park estate. History Grim's Ditch in th ...

in the County of Oxford, was a title in the

Baronetage of England Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) King James I ...

. It was created on 2 May 1696 for Thomas Wheate,

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

for

Woodstock Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held during August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, United States, southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, Woodstock. ...

. The second Baronet also represented this constituency in Parliament. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1816. The family seat was

Glympton Park Glympton Park is a former deer park at Glympton, north of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It includes Glympton House (an 18th-century country house) and has a estate including the village of Glympton, its Norman parish church of St. Mary, 32 st ...

Oxfordshire Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...

Wheate baronets, of Glympton (1696)

Sir Thomas Wheate, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Wheate, 1st Baronet (6 September 1667 – 25 August 1721), of Glympton Park, Oxfordshire was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1721. Early life Wheate was the o ...

(1667–1721) *

Sir Thomas Wheate, 2nd Baronet Sir Thomas Wheate, 2nd Baronet (2 March 1693 – 1 May 1746) was an England, English politician who was the Member of Parliament for Woodstock from 1722 to 1727. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Wheate, 1st Baronet, whom he succeeded in 172 ...

(1693–1746) *Sir George Wheate, 3rd Baronet (–1751) *Sir George Wheate, 4th Baronet (died 1760) *Sir Jacob Wheate, 5th Baronet (died 1783) *Sir John Thomas Wheate, 6th Baronet (1749–1816)

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