Sir Thomas Wheate, 2nd Baronet (2 March 1693 – 1 May 1746) was an English

politician A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles ...

who was the Member of Parliament for Woodstock from 1722 to 1727. He was the eldest son of

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 t ...

, whom he succeeded in 1721, inheriting

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 s ...

, near

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

. He served briefly as a cornet in Col. William Stanhope's Dragoons in 1715. He was elected Member of Parliament for

in 1722, sitting until 1727. He married Mary Gould, the daughter and coheiress of Thomas Gould of Oak End, Iver, Buckinghamshire, with whom he had four daughters. On his death in 1746 he was buried at Glympton,

Oxfordshire Oxfordshire ( ; abbreviated ''Oxon'') is a ceremonial county in South East England. The county is bordered by Northamptonshire and Warwickshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, and Wiltshire and Glouceste ...

and succeeded by his brother, George Wheate.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wheate, Thomas, 2nd Baronet 1693 births 1746 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of England