Edwin Paul Wheeler [also known as E. P. Wheeler and as E. P. H. Wheeler] was born in Brentford, Middlesex on 14 August 1874 and was articled to Septimus Cecil Searle (1853-1922) and Edward George Hayes (1842?-1907) of Searle & Hayes in 1891. He also attended the Architectural Association Schools in London where he was awarded Silver and Bronze Medals. He then worked as an assistant to Charles James Dawson (1850-1933) from 1894 to 1899 and in the London County Council (LCC) Architects' Department. In 1900 he qualified as an architect and continued to work in the LCC Architects' Department until his retirement in 1939, becoming Architect in 1935.
Photographs of housing in Roehampton, Middlesex designed by Wheeler are illustrated in The Book of the Modern House, edited by Patrick Abercrombie (1939 pp. 169-170)
Wheeler was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1902 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1928,
His address was given as 3 Phene Street, Chelsea, London and 17 Pall Mall East, London in 1902; 12 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, London in 1911; 23 Cressington Grove, Sutton, Surrey in 1914; Park Lodge, Park Road, Sutton, Surrey in 1923 and 1939; and 10 St Martins Avenue, Epsom, Surrey in 1939. He died at 13 Burgh Heath Road, Epsom, Surrey on 1 March 1944
Flats, Oaklands Estate, Clapham Park (1936); London Fire Brigade headquarters, Lambeth (1937); Chelsea Bridge (1937); and an extension to County Hall, Lambeth (1939), with Frederick Robert Hiorns (1876-1961). Wheeler was also responsible for the remodelling of Princess Mary's Convalescent Home for Women in Margate, Kent (1938).
‘Chelsea Bridge over Thames’ Architectural Review June 1939 pp. 284-285 [Architects: Topham Forest & E. P. Wheeler.]
Day, Nicholas Merthyr. The Role of the Architect in Post-War State Housing. A case study of the work of the London County Council 1939-1956. Ph.D. thesis, University of Warwick, 1988
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
‘London County Council School at Dog Kennel Hill, Dulwich’. Architect & Building News 8 April 1938 p. 45 [Architects: E. P. Wheeler and A. F. T. Cooper]
‘London County Hall extension’. The Builder 20 October 1939 p.586 [London County Hall extension]
‘Obituary’. The Builder vol. 166, 10 March 1944 p. 198