Wilson, John

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Epithet: LLD, Town-Clerk of Congleton

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Epithet: Dr; of Trinity College, Cambridge

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Epithet: Vicar of Arlington Sussex

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Epithet: Captain 28th Foot

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Epithet: Vicar of Mitton

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Epithet: of Liverpool; of Add MS 38746

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Epithet: Grocer, of Marshall Street, Carnaby Market, London

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Epithet: of Egerton MS 2644

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Epithet: witness of Wolley Ch xii.93

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Epithet: witness of Wolley Ch xii.87

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The Scottish vocalist, John Wilson, was born in Edinburgh on 25 December 1800. At the age of ten he was apprenticed to a printing firm and later worked with the city firm of Ballantynes. He showed an early liking for music which he was able to study, and he sang in church choirs in Edinburgh. He began to devote himself entirely to the teaching of music and to giving concerts, and he studied singing in Edinburgh and in London. In 1830 he appeared in the opera Guy Mannering and in other work at Covent Garden and Drury Lane. He then directed himself towards Scottish song and he appeared before Queen Victoria at Taymouth Castle in 1842. He also took his Scottish entertainment to North America and John Wilson died in Quebec, Canada, on 8 July 1849.

From the guide to the Letters of John Wilson (1800-1849), Scottish vocalist, 1838-1842, (Edinburgh University Library)

Epithet: missionary and orientalist

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Epithet: witness of Wolley Ch xii.76*

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Epithet: of Add MS 34926

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Epithet: of Add MS 22901

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Epithet: witness of Wolley Ch xii.89

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John Wilson was a merchant operating in Lebanon, New Jersey, in the 1790s and early 1800s. The earliest accounts in the ledger show Wilson trading mostly in wine and spirits, but by around 1800, sales of household goods, fabric, and clothing appear more frequently. Additional entries suggest that Wilson engaged in land speculation and that his daughter, Margaret, married in 1809.

From the guide to the John Wilson ledger, Wilson, John ledger, 1794-1816, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)

Title: 1st Baronet 1906

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John Wilson was born in Lauder, Berwickshire, on 11 December 1804. He was educated locally before studying for the ministry at Edinburgh University. While there he founded the 'Edinburgh Association of Theological Students in Aid of the Diffusion of the Gospel' and he offered himself as a missionary to the Scottish Missionary Society. To prepare himself for a life in India as a missionary he studied anatomy, surgery and the 'practice of physic' at Edinburgh University, 1827-1828. In 1828 he was licensed by the Presbytery of Lauder and he was ordained as a missionary the same year. In 1829 he arrived in Bombay (now Mumbai) and in 1830 founded the Oriental Christian spectator . In 1831 he formed a church on Presbyterian principles. Schools too were set up. In the 1830s he travelled more widely in India seeking to spread his mission. From the very beginning he acquainted himself with Marati, Gujarati, Hindi, and also used Hebrew, Portuguese, Farsi, Arabic and Sanskrit. In 1836 he was elected a Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, and he was the first to partially decipher the rock inscriptions at Asoka. His work The Parsi religion unfolded, refuted, and contrasted with Christianity (1843) brought his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1845. Earlier, in 1843, illness brought him back to Scotland via Egypt, Syria and Palestine, and he returned to India in 1847. In 1848 he was made President of the Cave Temple Commission, appointed to examine and record the antiquities connected with the cave temples of India. In 1849 he toured the Sind. In 1857, when the University of Bombay was constituted, Wilson was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts. A tour in Rajputana was made in 1860 and in 1870 he returned for a second visit to Scotland. While there he was made Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church. He returned to India in 1872. Other published works by Wilson include Lands of the Bible visited and described (1847), A memoir on the cave temples and monasteries, and other Buddhist, Brahmanical, and Jaina remains of western India reprinted (1850) from the Journal of the Bombay Asiatic Society, History of the suppression of infanticide in western India (1855), and India three thousand years ago (1858). John Wilson died in Mumbai on 1 December 1875.

From the guide to the Letters of John Wilson (1804-1875), Missionary and Orientalist, 1871-1874, (Edinburgh University Library)

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Epithet: barrister of Fletching

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John Wilson was born in Faversham, Kent, on 5 April 1595. He became a distinguished lutenist and in 1635 he succeeded Alphonso Bales as Musician to the King. When Oxford was the stronghold of the court of Charles I, Wilson's compositions won great popularity, particularly around the university. In 1645, he graduated Mus.Doc.Oxon. and the following year, on the fall of the Oxford garrison, he entered the service of Sir William Walter of Sarsden. In 1656 he was appointed Choragus at Oxford (at Oxford, a Choragus was originally appointed to superintend the practice of music) but in 1661 he resigned the post to become Chamber Musician to Charles II. The following year, in 1662, he was appointed Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and was given accommodation at Horseferry. John Wilson died on 22 February 1674. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

From the guide to the Collection of Songs of Dr. John Wilson, Musician (1595-1674), 17th century, (Edinburgh University Library)

Epithet: of Sloane MS 977

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Epithet: Professor

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Epithet: of Add MS 46196

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Epithet: Major

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Epithet: of Guildford

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Epithet: Justice of the Common Pleas

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