WILSON, DANIEL: Bishop of Calcutta; b. in Spitalfielda, London, July 2, 1778; d. in Calcutta Jan. 2,1858. He was educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford (B.A., 1802; M.A., 1804; D.D., 1832); was ordained, and became curate of Richard Cecil at Chobham and Bislcy in Surrey, where he developed into a strong Evangelical preacher; was tutor. or vice-principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and minister of Worton, Oxfordshire, 1807-12; assistant curate at St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, Bloomsbury, 1808-12; sole minister there, 1812-1824; and vicar of St. Mary's, Islington, 1824-32, when he was consecrated bishop of Calcutta, and metropolitan of India. He founded an English church at Rangoon, Ceylon, 1855, and the cathedral church, St. Paul's, consecrated at Calcutta, 1847. He was an indefatigable worker, and as bishop was noted for fidelity and firmness. He was the author of numerous sermons published separately and in collections, and of The Evidences of Christianity, . . . a Course of Lectures (2 vols., London, 1828-30); and of Bishop Wilson's Journal Letters, addressed to his Family the first Nine Years of his Indian Episcopacy (1863; ed. his son Daniel).

Bibliography: Besides the Journal Letters, ut sup., consult the Life by J. Bateman, 2 vols., London, 1860; E. Stock, HisE. of the Church Missionary Society, passim, ib. 1899.

WILSON, HENRY BRISTOW: Church of England; b. in London June 10, 1803; d. there Aug. 10, 1888. He studied at the Merchant Taylors' School, London, and at St. John's College, Oxford (B.A., 1825; M.A., 1829; B.D., 1834), and was fellow of St. John's 1825-50, tutor 1833-35, and Rawlinson professor of Anglo-Saxon 1839-44. He opposed the Oxford movement, and in Mar., 1841, joined A. C. Campbell, T. T. Churton, and John Griffiths in the memorable protest against Newman's Tract XC. In 1850 he Was presented to the college living of Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, which he retained till his death. He is memorable as the projector and editor of the volume of Essays and Reviews (q.v.) which started a great controversy in 1860 and subjected him to a trial for heresy. He published The Communion of Saints (Ox ford, 1851), Bampton lectures for 1851; A Letter . . . on University and College Reform (London, 1854); Schemes of Christian Comprehension (in-Ox ford Essays, 1857); The National Church (in Essays and Reviews, 1860); A Brief Examination of Prevalent Opinions on the Inspiration of the Old and New Testaments (1861); and Three Sermons (1861).

Bibliography: Life and Letters of Rowland Williams, by Mrs. Williams, vol. i., London, 1874; G. C. Brodrick and W. H. Fremantle, Judgments of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, pp. 247-290, ib. 1865; R. E. Prothero, Life and Correspondence of Dean Stanley, ii. 3fl-44, 157-158, ib. 1893; E. Abbott and L. Campbell, Life and Letters of BenjaminJowett, passim, ib. 1897; H. P. Liddon, Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey, ii. 167, iv. 38-68, ib. 1897; DNB, lxii. 97; literature under Essays and Reviews.