Henry Bristow Wilson
1803–88
Theologian. Fellow, St John’s College, Oxford, 1825–50. Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford University, 1839–44. Vicar, Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, 1850–88. Contributed an article to Essays and reviews (1860), as a result of which he was prosecuted for heterodoxy in the Court of Arches. His case was tried together with that of Rowland Williams; he was found guilty of three of the articles brought against him, but, as with Williams, the decision was reversed on appeal.
Source
DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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