WHEELER, (John) Stuart (1935-2020)

[Richard R]

He was adopted s of Capt Alexander (Alec) Hamilton WHEELER MC (c1880-1942) and Betty Lydia (1906-90) d of Sir Alexander Doran GIBBONS 7th Bt (1873-1956). He m 1979 Teresa (Tessa) Anne (1944-2016) d of William Melville CODRINGTON (1892-1963), 3xgt gs of Sir William CODRINGTON 1st Bt (d 1738), and Katherine Theodosia SINCLAIR (later Mrs Edward Kirkpatrick, d 2001), and had three daus as below.

Times obit 24 July 2020
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Stuart Wheeler obituary
Spread-betting tycoon who made millions from his company IG Index and became a record-breaking Conservative Party donor
...John Stuart Wheeler was the adopted son of Captain Alexander Wheeler, an heir to a banking fortune, and his wife Betty, daughter of Sir Alexander Doran Gibbons. Captain Wheeler won the Military Cross in the First World War, after which he ploughed through his inherited fortune, doing little work and instead riding with the Quorn hunt, shooting and fishing, but Stuart was fond of him and Betty.
His biological mother was Chrissie Cleland, a Scottish teacher who had moved to Margate with her father and two sisters. Wheeler never established who his father was, but believed it was Jack Mitchell, Cleland’s adoptive father. She died in 1969.
...In 1979 he met Tessa Codrington at a dinner party. ...For their first date, he took her to Aspinalls Casino in Mayfair. He lost £2,000 to his friend, the billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, in a coin-tossing game. Tessa, a bohemian who had moved to Tangier to be a photographer in the 1960s, was dazzled. When Wheeler’s fortune gave him the money to buy Chilham Castle in Kent, they used to host parties for everyone from academics to page 3 girls. The Globe theatre in London put on open-air Shakespeare plays there.
The Wheelers married the year they met and had three daughters: Charlotte, who works in political communications; Jacquetta, a former model; and Sarah, an expert in vintage photographs. Tessa died of neuroendocrine cancer in 2016.
Stuart Wheeler, businessman, was born on January 30, 1935. He died of stomach cancer on July 23, 2020, aged 85
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/stuart-wheeler-obituary-6xhlks2kn

Telegraph obit 24 July 2020: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/07/23/stuart-wheeler-spread-betting-mogul-became-leading-donor-conservative/

[Richard R]

From the Times of 2 April 2022:

Memorial Service

WHEELER Stuart Wheeler of Chilham Castle, Kent, at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, on 17th May 2022 at 11  o’clock.