Nick Wheeler

{{Short description|English businessman}}

{{about||the professor of international politics|Nicholas J. Wheeler|the musician with The All-American Rejects|Nick Wheeler (musician)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Nicholas Wheeler

| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}}

| birth_name = Nicholas Charles Tyrwhitt Wheeler

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1965|01|20|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Ludlow, Shropshire, UK

| education = Eton College

| alma_mater = University of Bristol

| occupation = Entrepreneur

| known_for = Founder of Charles Tyrwhitt

| children = 4

| signature = File:Nick Wheeler signature.svg

| spouse = {{Marriage|Chrissie Rucker|1995}}

}}

Nicholas Charles Tyrwhitt Wheeler {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE}} (born 20 January 1965) is an English businessman. In 1986, he established the Charles Tyrwhitt company and shirt brand, which he owns.{{cite web|first= Andrew |last=Davidson|url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/consumer_goods/article6954521.ece |title=Nick Wheeler, founder of Charles Tyrwhitt|work=The Sunday Times|department=Business section|date=13 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611195458/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/consumer_goods/article6954521.ece|archive-date=11 June 2011|trans-title=Published as 'The old Etonian barrow boy', page 6 (paper version)}}

Wheeler was born in Ludlow, Shropshire and was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Eton College. At Eton, he was a classmate of former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.{{Cite web |last=Klajn |first=Yoni |date=2021-09-14 |title=A Cut Above |url=https://mishpacha.com/a-cut-above-3/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=Mishpacha Magazine |language=en-US}} After Eton, Wheeler attended the University of Bristol, where he studied geography. His first job was as a management consultant for Bain & Company.{{Cite web|title=About Nick Wheeler {{!}} Charles Tyrwhitt|url=https://www.charlestyrwhitt.com/us/about-us/about-nick.html|access-date=2021-12-28|website=www.charlestyrwhitt.com}}{{Cite web|date=2017-07-27|title=Charles Tyrwhitt founder, Nick Wheeler: 'I'm allergic to bureaucracy'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2017/jul/27/charles-tyrwhitt-founder-nick-wheeler-allergic-bureacracy|access-date=2021-12-28|website=the Guardian|language=en}}

In November 1986, with the assistance of financing from his family and said connections, he set up Charles Tyrwhitt, a shirt brand in the United Kingdom.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ctshirts.co.uk/About-Charles-Tyrwhitt?cnt=about_us |title=Our history |publisher=Charles Tyrwhitt |website=www.ctshirts.co.uk|access-date=23 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151227031009/http://www.ctshirts.co.uk/About-Charles-Tyrwhitt?cnt=about_us |archive-date=27 December 2015 |url-status=dead }} It grew to be the UK's largest mail order shirt business, and it also has several brick and mortar locations.{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/nick-wheeler-from-failed-photographer-to-jermyn-streets-king-of-the-shirts-1802779.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220619/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/nick-wheeler-from-failed-photographer-to-jermyn-streets-king-of-the-shirts-1802779.html |archive-date=19 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Nick Wheeler: From failed photographer to Jermyn Street's king of the shirts |last=Arnott |first=Sarah |date=15 October 2009 |work=The Independent |location=London}}

In 2008, he was a regional judge for the Entrepreneur Challenge in the UK.{{Cite news |url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article3601592.ece |title=Nick Wheeler of Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts says that work should be fun |last=Morrison |first=Doug |date=23 March 2008 |work=The Sunday Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612233543/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article3601592.ece |archive-date=12 June 2011}}