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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