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, inheriting Glympton Park, near Woodstock.

He served briefly as a cornet in Col. William Stanhope's Dragoons in 1715. He was elected Member of Parliament for Woodstock in 1722, sitting until 1727.

He married Mary Gould, the daughter and coheiress of Thomas Gould of Oak End, Iver, Buckinghamshire, with whom he had four daughters. On his death in 1746 he was buried at Glympton, Oxfordshire and succeeded by his brother, George Wheate.

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• "WHEATE, Sir Thomas, 2nd Bt. (1693–1746), of Glympton Park, Oxon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 22 March 2013.