WILSON, JAMES ARTHUR, son of James Wilson, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, surgeon and teacher of anatomy, and ---, dau. of John Clarke, Wellingborough, Northants, surgeon; b. 1795; in school list 1801; KS 1808; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1812, matr. 9 May 1812, Westminster Student 1812-7, Faculty Student 1817-24; 1st cl. Classics and 1st cl. Mathematics 1815; BA 1815; MA 1818; MB 1819; MD 1823; Radcliffe Travelling Fellow 1821; practised medicine initially in Paris, but returned to England in 1829; FRCP 28 Mar 1825, Censor 1828, 1851, Harveian Orator 1850; Physician to St. George’s Hospital 1829-57, Consulting Physician from 1857; author, On Spasm, Languor, Palsy, and other Disorders termed Nervous, of the Muscular System, 1843; m. 1st, 29 Apr 1824 Jessie Janet Shedden, dau. of James Scrimgeour; m. 2nd, 22 Jun 1871 Eleanor, second dau. of Hon. and Rev. Littleton Powys, Rector of Titchmarsh, Northants; d. 29 Dec 1882. DNB.

WILSON, JOHN, of Middlesex; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1602, matr. 5 Nov 1602, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1612; BA 1606; MA 1609; DD 1619; adm. Gray’s Inn 2 Feb 1612/3; a joint patent of the Head Mastership of the School was granted to Richard Ireland (qv) and himself 25 Jan 1609/10; on Ireland’s escape to France a few months later he became Head Master; a joint patent of the Head Mastership was granted to him and to Lambert Osbaldeston (qv) 7 Dec 1621, Osbaldeston succeeding him as Head Master in 1622; ordained; Rector of Bedale, Yorks., from 8 Aug 1621; Vicar of Burneston, Yorks., 1 Jul 1622-34; Rector of St. Mary, Castlegate, York 1625; Prebendary of Westminster Oct 1623 – res 1635, of Ripon 14 Aug 1623 and of Lincoln from 3 Mar 1629/30; Dean of Ripon from 1624; Master of the Savoy; lic. to m. 22 Apr 1616 Johanna, dau. of William Stanlake, King Street, Westminster, grocer; d. 19 Feb 1634/5.

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.

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, TIMOTHY, son of Robert Wilson, Oxfordshire; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1658; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1662, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1662, scholar 1663, matr. 1662.