Michael Mortimer Wheeler QC (8 January 1915 – 7 August 1992) was a British barrister.
[2] Having joined the Territorial Army, during the Second World War he served in the Royal Artillery regiment (the 48th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, later combined with the 69th and 79th LAA Batteries to form the 21st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment for service overseas) formed and commanded by his father, who unconventionally commissioned him as a second lieutenant, this appointment subsequently confirmed by the War Office.
By the end of the war he had risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel and was mentioned in dispatches.
He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1961, elected a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1967, and Treasurer in 1986.
He also served as a deputy High Court judge for fifteen years, before his retirement in 1986.