Personal Life
In 1914 he married Tessa Verney. Their son Michael, who became a barrister, was born in January 1915. Tessa, who helped with his excavations, died in 1936.
In 1939, he married Mavis de Vere Cole, widow and second wife of the prankster Horace de Vere Cole (d. 1936) and mistress-model of the painter Augustus John. Mavis was a Bright Young Thing (a socialite of the 1920s).
The Churchills were invited to this wedding and sent a book as a wedding present. Wheeler divorced Mavis in 1942 after discovering her with a lover. There were no children of this second marriage.
In 1945 Mortimer Wheeler married his third wife, Margaret Norfolk, in Simla.
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“Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters ‘woman’s peculiar sphere,’ her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)
“A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)