Benjamin Robert Wheatley

Between 1847 and 1850 he catalogued the libraries of John Archer Houblon at Hallingbury Place in Essex, of the Alfred Club, of the Marquess of Lansdowne (at Bowood in Wiltshire, and in Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square), of the Royal College of Physicians, of Augustus Gostling at Whitton, of Lord Bolton at Hackwood Park, and of the Army and Navy Club.

[1] In 1850 and 1851 Wheatley was engaged in compiling an index of subjects to supplement the catalogue of authors at the Athenæum Library.

[1] In the subsequent years Wheatly catalogued the libraries of Lady Charlotte Guest at Canford Manor in Dorset, of the Privy Council Office, of Lord Lilford, of Dr. Edward Moore, of the Junior United Service Club, and of the Earl of Romney.

[1] In 1855 Wheatley was appointed resident librarian of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, for whom he had worked in 1841; and from that time he largely ceased to make library catalogues.

[1] Wheatley died in London unmarried on 9 January 1884 at 53 Berners Street, the premises of the Medical and Chirurgical Society.

He also made a manuscript catalogue of the collection of engraved portraits of medical men in the possession of the society, with short biographies of 900 of the persons portrayed.