The Wheate Baronetcy, of

Glympton Glympton is a village and civil parish on the River Glyme about north of Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The 2001 Census recorded the parish's population as 80. The village and church are owned by the Glympton Park estate. History Grim's Ditch in t ...

in the County of Oxford, was a title in the

Baronetage of England Baronets are hereditary titles awarded by the Crown. The current baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier, existing baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland and Great Britain. To be recognised as a baronet, it is necessary ...

. It was created on 2 May 1696 for Thomas Wheate, Member of Parliament for

Woodstock The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, Woodstock. Billed as "a ...

. The second Baronet also represented this constituency in Parliament. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1816. The family seat was

Glympton Park Glympton Park is a former deer park at Glympton, north of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It includes Glympton House (an 18th-century country house) and has a estate including the village of Glympton, its Norman parish church of St. Mary, 32 s ...

Oxfordshire Oxfordshire ( ; abbreviated ''Oxon'') is a ceremonial county in South East England. The county is bordered by Northamptonshire and Warwickshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, and Wiltshire and Glouceste ...

Wheate baronets, of Glympton (1696)

Sir Thomas Wheate, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Wheate, 1st Baronet (6 September 1667 – 25 August 1721), of Glympton Park, Oxfordshire was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1721. Early life Wheate was t ...

(1667–1721) *

Sir Thomas Wheate, 2nd Baronet Sir Thomas Wheate, 2nd Baronet (2 March 1693 – 1 May 1746) was an English politician who was the Member of Parliament for Woodstock from 1722 to 1727. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Wheate, 1st Baronet, whom he succeeded in 1721, inhe ...

(1693–1746) *Sir George Wheate, 3rd Baronet (–1751) *Sir George Wheate, 4th Baronet (died 1760) *Sir Jacob Wheate, 5th Baronet (died 1783) *Sir John Thomas Wheate, 6th Baronet (1749–1816)

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