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When Wilson left for India, his son Daniel Frederick Wilson, then aged 27, took over as Vicar of Islington and served there for over 40 years. Another son became a missionary to indigenous Canadians in the
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In 1803 Wilson married Ann Wilson (died 1827), daughter of William Wilson, a cousin. Of their six children, three died young.
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Wilson founded the Islington Clerical Conference in 1827 in his library. In 1831, Wilson was one of the founders of the
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In 1832 Wilson was awarded a D.D. by diploma by the University of Oxford. That year he was consecrated
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The Life of The Right Rev. Daniel Wilson, D.D., Late Lord Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India
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Bishop Wilson's Journal Letters, addressed to his Family the first Nine Years of his Indian Episcopacy
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in 1798, and graduated B.A. in 1802, M.A. in 1804. He was ordained in 1801 and became curate to
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of evangelical Anglicans. He was tutor or vice-principal of St Edmund Hall, and minister of
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to become a minister. They were associates of his maternal grandfather Daniel West, as were
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The Divine Authority and Perpetual Obligation of the Lord's Day, asserted in seven sermons
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appears to suggest that there was a life written by Wilson's successor at Bedford Row,
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A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes
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Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886
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on 18 July 1841. It was completed in 1846 with the aid of the
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Wilson developed into a strong preacher, associated with the
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Vol.5 No.210 p.50 (2 January 1875) W. Wels Gardner, London
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The Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society
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The Evidences of Christianity, . . . a Course of Lectures
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Numerous sermons published separately and in collections
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of India and Ceylon. He founded an English church at
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Index

Daniel Wilson
The Most Reverend
Bishop of Calcutta

Thomas Phillips
Church of England
Calcutta
John Turner
George Cotton
Spitalfields
London
England
Kingdom of Great Britain
Calcutta
Bengal Presidency
British India
St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata
Bishop of Calcutta
Spitalfields
London
John Eyre
John Newton
Thomas Wilson
Samuel Brewer
Thomas Haweis
George Whitefield
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Richard Cecil
Chobham
Bisley

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