Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare, CMG, FBA (26 March 1907 – 7 September 1979)[1] was an Australian academic, who spent most of his career at Oxford University in England.
Another son is Henry Wheare, the champion British rower who later became a leading intellectual property lawyer in Hong Kong.
In 1939, he was elected fellow of University College, Oxford to fill the post of tutor in politics that had been vacated by John Maud.
[1][7] The Wheare committee's findings published in 1950 led to the introduction of a compulsory certificate, X (Explicit Content), allowing only those aged 16 and older to enter.
In June 1973, Wheare was shortlisted for appointment as Governor-General of Australia,[10] but was overlooked by then-prime minister Gough Whitlam in favour of Sir John Kerr.