Philip Wheeldon

He was educated at Clifton College and then at Downing College, Cambridge, the college frequented by the family. He was ordained in 1938. He sat for a number of portraits which are now housed in the National Portrait Gallery, London.{{Cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp78058/philip-william-wheeldon|title=Philip William Wheeldon – National Portrait Gallery}}

After a curacy at FarnhamWho's Who 1992 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3514-2}} he was commissioned as Chaplain to the Forces, Fourth Class on 12 October 1939,{{London Gazette|issue=34715|supp=y|page=7113|date=20 October 1939}} and served throughout the Second World War. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 24 January 1946,{{London Gazette|issue=37442|supp=y|pages=616–618|date=20 October 1939}} for his service as Deputy Assistant Chaplain General to XII Corps from November 1944 (with the rank of Chaplain to the Forces, Second Class) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, and presented to him by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7687205|title=Recommendations for Honours and Awards (Army)—Image details—Wheeldon, Philip William|work=DocumentsOnline|publisher=The National Archives|format=fee usually required to view full pdf of original recommendation|accessdate=18 May 2009}} File:Whitby Abbey image.jpg

When peace came he was successively chaplain to the Archbishop of York,Crockford's,(London, Church House 1995) {{ISBN|0-7151-8088-6}} General Secretary of the Central Advisory Council on Training for the Ministry and finally Prebendary of Wells Cathedral.

In this post he served as the attendant of the Archbishop of York in the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II before elevation to the Episcopate in October 1954.{{London Gazette|issue=40313|page=6124|date=29 October 1954}} This was just prior to this Enthronement in 1954, as Bishop of Whitby.

After 7 years at Whitby he was translated to Kimberley and Kuruman in South Africa. He served twice as Bishop, retiring once through ill-health but returning when his successor Clarence Edward Crowther was deported. In retirement he served as an Assistant Bishop, firstly in the Diocese of Worcester and latterly at Wakefield.

In 1992, he died and his death was recorded by obituaries in the Telegraph and the Times newspapers.

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