Wheelwright (surname)

Wheelwright is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Edmund M. Wheelwright (1854–1912), American architect * Edward Lawrence Wheelwright (1921–2007), Australian economist and political theorist *

Esther Wheelwright Esther Wheelwright (31 March 1696 – 28 November 1780), also known as Mère Marie-Joseph de l'Enfant-Jésus, was born in Wells, Massachusetts (present day Maine). Wheelwright was captured during an attack of her village during Queen Anne's War ...

(1696-1780), Ursuline nun in Québec *

Horace William Wheelwright Horace William Wheelwright (5 January 1815 – 16 November 1865) was an English hunter, naturalist and writer who spent many years of his life in Australia and Sweden. Wheelwright was born at Tansor, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Reading ...

(1815–1865), English naturalist and writer *

John Wheelwright John Wheelwright (c. 1592–1679) was a Puritan clergyman in England and America, noted for being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Antinomian Controversy, and for subsequently establishing the town of Exeter, New Hamps ...

(1592–1679), English clergyman and early American settler *

John Brooks Wheelwright John Brooks Wheelwright (sometimes Wheelright) (9 September 1897 – 13 September 1940) was an American poet from a Boston Brahmin background. He belonged to the poetic ''avant garde'' of the 1930s and was a Marxist, a founder-member of the T ...

(1897–1940), American poet *

Philip Wheelwright Philip Ellis Wheelwright (July 6, 1901 – January 6, 1970) was an American philosopher, classical scholar and literary theorist. He was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the son of a stockbroker, and died in Santa Barbara, California. Wheelwri ...

(1901–1970), American philosopher *

William Wheelwright William Wheelwright (March 18, 1798 – September 26, 1873) was a businessman who played an essential role in the development of steamboat and train transportation in Chile and other parts of South America. In 1838, with help from the Chilean ...

(1798 --1873), American businessman {{surname, Wheelwright English-language surnames Occupational surnames English-language occupational surnames