Rev. Thomas Wilson

1563 - Bef 1622  (~ 60 years)

• Name	Thomas Wilson
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	Between 1562 and 1563	Durham, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 25 Jan 1622  [2]
  Burial	25 Jan 1622	St. George the Martyr, Canterbury, Kent, England   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I36570	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2021

  
  

  Family	Christian Ower   d. Aft 1627
  Marriage	29 Jun 1592	Canterbury, Kent, England   [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Wilson,   b. Bef 15 Jan 1604   d. 1 Dec 1685, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 81 years)
  Family ID	F21501	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2021

  
  

• Notes

  From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: He matriculated from Queen's College, Oxford, on 17 November 1581, aged eighteen, graduating BA on 7 February 1584 and MA on 7 July 1586. Through the influence of the provost of the college, Henry Robinson (d. 1616), Wilson was instituted on 21 July 1586 to the rectory of St George the Martyr, Canterbury, Kent, and was also briefly a lower master at King's School, Canterbury, from the same year. [...] From the first appearance of his An Exposition of the First Two Verses of the Sixt Chapter to the Hebrewes (1609), dedicated to his kinsman Sir John Boies, various editions of Wilson's sermons were published, several including carefully considered catechisms. In A Sermon Preached in August the 13 1610 to the Corporation of Black-Smiths (1610) he praised 'that trade which workes in iron'. In or before 1611 he became chaplain to Edward Wotton, Lord Wotton of Marley. His huge Christian Dictionarie, the first dictionary of the Bible in English, originally appeared in 1612; other substantial works included Jacobs Ladder (1611), which contained a long dialogue on justification by faith, and Theologicall Rules (1615).

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S6004] Doris Schreiber Willcox, "Massachusetts Descendants of the Rev. Thomas Wilson, Author of the Pilgrims' Christian Dictionarie: Theophilus Wilson, Martha (Wilson) Bachelor, Mary (Wilson) Treadwell, and Their Nephew Samuel Taylor." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 163:5, 2009. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing., date only.