John Wheeler was born in 1916 and studied at the Architectural Association School in London. In 1939 he was one of the eleven founding members of Architects’ Co-operative Partnership (ACP) [in 1951 renamed the Architects’ Co-Partnership (ACP)], an architectural co-operative all of whom attended the AA School.
On 21 December 1940 he married the architect and town planner Ann Radford (1918-2008) who had also attended the AA School.
Wheeler's architectural career was very brief. Shortly after the outbreak of World War Two he joined the Royal Air Force. He was killed in Sussex on 12 September 1945 while testing a plane for the RAF.
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