Wilson, Thomas, 1663-1755
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Name (Latin)
Wilson, Thomas, 1663-1755
Name (Arabic)
ويلسون، توماس، 1663-1755
Other forms of name
nnaa Wilson, Thomas, Bp. of Sodor and Man, 1663-1755
Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1663-1755
Wilson, Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man
Date of birth
1663-12-20
Date of death
1755-03-07
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Christianity
Pastoral counseling
Preaching
Occupation
Bishops
Clergy
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, viewed 6 December 2021(Wilson, Thomas (1663-1755), bishop of Sodor and Man, was born on 20 December 1663 at Burton, near Neston, Cheshire; Wilson entered Trinity College in 1682 and was elected a scholar the following year; he intended to study medicine, but then decided on an ecclesiastical career; Wilson was ordained a deacon in 1686 in the cathedral church of Kildare on the day of its consecration; he was appointed domestic chaplain to William George Richard Stanley (d. 1702), lord of Man and the ninth earl of Derby, in 1692; he was consecrated as bishop of Sodor and Man at the Savoy church in London in January 1697, and was made doctor of laws about the same time; Oxford and Cambridge both conferred honorary doctorates of divinity on Wilson in 1707, and in June of that year he was elected a member of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; Wilson died at Bishop's Court on 7 March 1755)
- His The works of the Right Reverend Thomas Wilson, 1784.
- LC manual authority cd.(hdg.: Wilson, Thomas, Bp. of Sodor and Man)