Background
He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Wheate, 1st Baronet, whom he succeeded in 1721, inheriting Glympton Park, near Woodstock.
He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Wheate, 1st Baronet, whom he succeeded in 1721, inheriting Glympton Park, near Woodstock.
He served briefly as a cornet in Colonel William Stanhope’s Dragoons in 1715.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Woodstock in 1722, sitting until 1727.