Daniel Wilson (bishop)

Daniel Wilson (bishop)
Bishop Daniel Wilson, 1832

Daniel Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata), born in Spitalfields, London, 2 July 1778, died in Calcutta, 2 January 1858.

He was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford (BA, 1802; MA, 1804; DD, 1832); was ordained, and became curate of Richard Cecil at Cobham and Bisley 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 to 1812; assistant curate at St John's Chapel, Bedford Row, Bloomsbury, 1808 to 1812 (where Richard Cecil had earlier been incumbent); sole minister there, 1812 to 1824; and vicar of St Mary's Church, Islington, 1824 to 1832, when he was consecrated Bishop of Calcutta, and first Metropolitan of India and Ceylon. He founded an English church at Rangoon, Ceylon, 1855, and St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, (consecrated 1847). He was an indefatigable worker, and as bishop was noted for fidelity and firmness.

In 1831 he was one of the founders of the Lord's Day Observance Society. He was associated with the Clapham Sect evangelical Anglicans, the best known of whom is William Wilberforce.

In 1835 he was noted for calling India's caste system "a cancer."

Contents

Selected writings by Daniel Wilson

  • Numerous sermons published separately and in collections
  • The Evidences of Christianity, . . . a Course of Lectures (2 vols., London, 1828–1830)
  • Bishop Wilson's Journal Letters, addressed to his Family the first Nine Years of his Indian Episcopacy (1863; edited by his son Daniel Wilson, Vicar of Islington)
  • The Divine Authority and Perpetual Obligation of the Lord's Day, asserted in seven sermons (London, 1831) (in print, from Day One)

Bibliography

  • Journal Letters (see above)
  • The Life of The Right Rev. Daniel Wilson, D.D., Late Lord Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India by Josiah Bateman, 2 vols, London, 1860
  • History of the Church Missionary Society by Eugene Stock, London, 1899.
  • MacAulay, in Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay appears to suggest that there was a life written by Wilson's successor at Bedford Row, Baptist Wriothesley Noel (see [1]), but this seems not to be listed at COPAC.
  • Andrew Porter, ‘Wilson, Daniel (1778–1858)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [2]

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