Wheeler’s parents encouraged his attraction to architecture from his early years. Middle class children had private tutors at this time while whatever education working class children received was aimed at giving them moral instruction rather than academic training.Ĭharles Henry Wheeler (1838-1917), architect, choirmaster, music and theatre critic. The church had been built in the thirteenth century and is renowned for its former rector John Wycliffe who translated the bible into English in the fourteenth century. attended grammar school in Lutterworth and received additional training from the vicar of the parish church of St. was the middle child he had an older half- sister Elizabeth, and a brother John. She most likely met her husband helping her family, who were bakers, during market day. When his parents married, his father Charles was twenty-one years old, a manservant, coachman and groom his mother Mary Elson was twenty from a neighbouring village. Lutterworth, with a population of about 2,400, was the Thursday market town and parish serving the surrounding villages and hamlets with the locals providing services as tailors, millers, bakers and the like.

As an historical document, the article may contain language and views that are no longer in common use and may be culturally sensitive in nature.Ĭharles Henry Wheeler was born on 23 April 1838 in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, in the west Midlands of England that includes the cities of Coventry and Birmingham.

We make this online version available as a free, public service. This article was published originally in Manitoba History by the Manitoba Historical Society on the above date. Manitoba History: The Architectural Legacy of Charles Wheeler

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