Kenneth Wheare
Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare, CMG was an Australian academic, who spent most of his career at Oxford University in England. He was an expert on the constitutions of the British Commonwealth.Early life and family
Wheare was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne and was later a student at Oriel College, Oxford, gaining a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and also undertaking postgraduate study. He met his wife Joan when he was her tutor. One of their sons is Tom Wheare.Career
Political career
Wheare served on the Oxford City Council from 1940 to 1957.Academic career
In 1944, he was appointed Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College. In 1956, he became Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. A gargoyle of his likeness is carved on the Bodleian Library, visible from the Exeter College Fellows' Garden.
Wheare was Chairman of the Rhodes Trust, President of the British Academy, Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 1972. He was also a Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1964–66.Honours
He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1953 and was knighted in 1966.
In 2017, Oxford Brookes University named a newly rebuilt lecture hall after Wheare.
