Death and Legacy
John Wheatley died on 12 May 1930, one week before his 61st birthday.
John Wheatley College in Glasgow is named after him. His nephew, John Thomas Wheatley, became a Labour MP for Edinburgh in 1947 and Lord Advocate.
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