Thomas Lucas Wheeler

Residuary heir of Thomas Lucas of Lee (q.v.).

1. In his will made in 1786 and proved 09/07/1792, Thomas Lucas Wheeler left his residuary interest (after the life-interest of Elizabeth Angerstein formerly Lee) in the estate of Thomas Lucas in England to John Beach (q.v.) of Lime Street and Thomas Plummer (q.v.) of Peckham in Surrey in trust for Elizabeth Angerstein and her heirs, and his slave-property on St Kitts to John Beach subject to the annuities charged on it by Thomas Lucas, and he [Thomas Lucas Wheeler] charged a further £150 p.a. on it in favour of William Beach (q.v.). From his residuary estate he ordered his trustees to pay a series of annuities to individuals of various degrees of kinship to Thomas Lucas of Lee totalling £250 p.a. and a further £40 p.a to Charles Johnson, identified as Thomas Lucas of Lee's former butler, together with monetary legacies of some £6100. Then in a codicil of 1789, he (1) revoked the bequest of his residuary interest in the English estate to Elizabeth Angerstein and left it instead to Joseph Paice (2) diverted the annuity he had left to William Beach (who had since died) to trustees for Mary Gould instead and (3) revoked most of the annuities and legacies to Thomas Lucas' kin. In a further codicil of 1790 he revoked the bequest of his St Kitts estate to John Beach and left it instead to Joseph Paice [who then assigned a half-share to John Beach, according to the latter's will].

2. Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 18) at TRINITY, Nov. 1, 1776. S. of Daniel, of Honiton, Devon. School, Wandsworth, London. Matric. Michs. 1776. There is a portrait of him (1778) by John Downman, in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

3. In 1798, an annuity of £150 p.a. to Mary Gould confectioner of New Bond Street aged about 43, given and bequeathed by Thomas Lucas Wheeler in a codicil to his will and secured on certain estates [and enslaved people] on St Kitts, was placed for auction by Mary Gould's assignees in bankruptcy.

1. George Maule and William Selwyn, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in Court of the King's Bench (1817) Vol, IV, pp. 1-4, 'Beckett against Harden' (1815); PROB 11/1221/261.

2. Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database online].

3. London Gazette 14099, 17 March 1798 p. 241.