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WILSON, THOMAS, younger son of Rev. William Wilson DD, Canon of Windsor and Prebendary of Rochester, and Prebendary and Chancellor of St. Paul’s; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1607, matr. 10 Jun 1608, aged 17, Westminster Student to 1617; BA 1611; MA 1614 (incorp. Cambridge 1615); BD 8 Mar 1621/2; DD Cambridge c. 1625 (incorp. Oxford 12 Aug 1645); ordained; Rector of Paglesham, Essex 1625; Rector of Wimbish, Essex 1625; Rector of Debden, Essex 22 Dec 1629; Rector of Fulbourn St. Vigers, Cambs.; Prebendary of St. Paul’s 24 Dec 1623, of Westminster 10 Jan 1625/6 and of Lincoln from 30 Dec 1631; dispossessed of his preferments during the Civil War; living Sep 1652; m. Ann, widow of Rev. John Hills DD, Rector of Fulbourne St. Vigers, Cambs., Master of St. Catherine’s Coll. Cambridge, and dau. of Clement Heigham, Wickhambrook, Suffolk; dead by May 1653.

WILSON, THOMAS, son of Thomas Wilson, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Mary ---; b. 12 Mar 1751; in school lists 1764; KS 1766; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1770, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1770, aged 19, scholar 26 Apr 1771, matr. 1771; BA 1774; MA 1777; ordained priest 11 Jun 1775 (Peterborough, lit. dim. from Winchester); Curate, Abinger, Surrey 1775; Head Master, Kingston upon Thames GS 1797-1832; d. 16 May 1842.

WILSON, SAMUEL, son of Very Rev. Thomas Wilson DD, Dean of Worcester, and Dorothy, dau. of Robert Banister; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1580, adm. scholar 1581; BA 1584/5.

WILSON, SAMUEL, son of Samuel Wilson, Shrewsbury, Shropshire; b.; adm.; BB 1666; KS 1668; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1670, matr. 1 Jul 1670, aged 19, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1670 – void 1678; BA 1674; MA 1677; ordained; Vicar of Oswestry, Shropshire 1690-2; according to the autobiography of William Taswell (adm. 1660, qv), Wilson owed his election to Oxford to “the recommendation of the Earl of Montgomery his godfather”.

Wilson, Robert Andrew, son of Robert Bruce Wilson of Billericay, Essex, and Margaret, d. of Abraham Phillips of Clifton, Bristol; b. 18 Julv 1905; adm. Sept. 1919 (KS); left July 1924; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1924, BA 1927 (1st dass hons Classical Trip. Pts I and 2), MA 1946; asst Keeper Dept. of Printed Books British Museum 1929, dep. Keeper 1948, Keeper 1952, princi­pal Keeper 1959-66; CB Jan. 1962; m. 1967 Rosemary Ann, d. of Sydney Joseph Norris of Gravesend, Kent; d. 18 Aug. 1984.

WILSON, RICHARD, second son of Joshua Wilson, Pontefract, Yorks., attorney and Alderman, and Anne, dau. of William Clifton, Houghton, Yorks.; b. 18 May 1732; adm. Feb 1745/6 (Hutton's); left 1750; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 Jun 1749, scholar 11 May 1750, matr. 1750; adm. Inner Temple 1 Aug 1752; migr. to Gray’s Inn 24 Jan 1753, called to bar 20 May 1757, Bencher 9 Feb 1770; Recorder of Berwick on Tweed; inherited Crofton Hall estate, near Wakefield, Yorks., on death of his father in 1778; d. unm. 17 Sep 1794.

Wilson, Richard Fleming, son of Thomas Wilson, of Bayswater, by Violet Gale, daughter of Richard Samuel Cook, of Dorking, Surrey; b. May 19, 1903; adm. Sept. 27, 1917 (A); left Dec. 1919; City and Guilds Engineering Coll. Kensington; B.Sc.; an electrical engineer.

WILSON, PHILIP, fourth son of Thomas Wilson, Tobago, West Indies; b.; adm. Christmas 1809; KS (aged 13) 1810; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1814, adm. pens. 21 May 1814; migr. to Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 Apr 1816; BA 1820; MA 1823; adm. Middle Temple 28 Jan 1815; ordained; Rector of Ilchester, Somerset 1830-7; d. 23 Jun 1847, aged 52.

Wilson, Keith Alexander Buchanan, son of Alexander J. Wilson, of Birkenhead, Cheshire; b. Jan. 3, 1899; adm. May 4, 1911 (H); left July 1913; adm. a solicitor June 1923; in practice at Worthing, Sussex; d. 3 Dec. 1987.

WILSON, JOHN, son of John Wilson (elected to Oxford 1602, qv); b. ; KS 1640 (J. E. B. Mayor and R. F. Scott, Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb. , i, 61); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 Sep 1641, aged 16, matr. 1645; BA 1645/6; MA 1649; adm. Inner Temple Nov 1646, called to bar 1654; fought in the Civil War for the King; d. 24 Sep 1681.