John Gladwell Wheen

John Gladwell Wheen (died 1929) was a Methodist minister. He served as President-General of the Methodist Church of Australasia from 1926 to 1929.

Early life John Gladwell Wheen was born at Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, the son of Edwin Wheen. As a young man he was employed by the town clerk of Sheffield, and was later appointed secretary of the Sheffield Public Hospital and Dispensary. He was associated with the Carver Street chapel, and became a departmental superintendent of the Red Hill school, one of the largest in the city, and famous as a source of ministers and mission workers. Here he was associated with the late Rev. J. Woodhouse, who was a member of his class, and who later became his brother-in-law.

Wheen immigrated to Australia in 1882 by the Sabroan (later the training ship Tingira) and settled in Victoria. Soon after his term expired he was appointed by the general conference as its representative to the British Wesleyan Conference in London, and to the world conference on "faith and order" at Geneva. He returned in February 1921. Owing to ill-health, he retired from the position of general secretary to the Methodist Missionary Society of Australia in 1925.

Wheen died on the morning of Wednesday 13 November 1929 in Sydney, after a short illness, at the age of 71 years.

Legacy A stained glass memorial window depicting "Morning at Gethsemane" in the Ashfield Methodist Church was dedicated to Wheen on Sunday 16 August 1936. It was made by John Ashwin.