Claim: Charles Wheatly entered Merchant Taylors' School on 9 January, 1699, matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford (one of the most academic of all Oxford colleges) on 28 March 1705, and was elected a Fellow in 1707.
Evidence: Charles entered Merchant Taylors' School on 9 January 1699, and matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, on 28 March 1705. It is amongst the most academic of all Oxford colleges; in 2018 St John's topped the Norrington Table, the annual ranking of Oxford colleges' final results. He was elected a Fellow in 1707, and graduated B.A. on 23 January 1710, and M.A. on 28 March 1713, resigning his fellowship in the same year.