John Wheeler-Bennett

John Wheeler-Bennett (1840 – 25 June 1926) was a British import merchant, public servant and philanthropist. He was the father of British historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett.

Early life Wheeler-Bennett was educated at Mr Vickery's School in Portsmouth, a private preparatory school for boys wishing to enter the Royal Navy.

During World War I, Wheeler-Bennett chaired the finance committee of the Kent County War Fund of the British Red Cross Society, which administered nearly a hundred Voluntary Aid Detachment hospitals. He also served on the City of London Military Advisory Committee, chaired the Bromley Rural Tribunal, and was joint treasurer of the Royal Naval Ports Church Building Fund established in 1912.

Wheeler-Bennett served as High Sheriff of Kent from 1922 to 1924. He donated £10,000 to the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital at Maidstone in 1923. He was also a justice of the peace. Wheeler-Bennett died from heart failure on 25 June 1926 at his home in Ravensbourne, Keston, Kent.

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