Joseph Mazzini Wheeler

Joseph Mazzini Wheeler (24 January 1850 – 5 May 1898) was an English atheist and freethought writer.

[1] He became an atheist after reading the works of Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer.

[2] In 1868, he met George William Foote and they became lifelong friends.

[1] Wheeler worked as an editor for Foote's Freethinker journal.

[3] Wheeler suffered from a mental breakdown and died in an asylum in 1898.