GEMMS IDGEMMS-PERSON-000170
NameThomas Wilson
TitleMr.
Gendermale
Denomination
Livedb. - d. 1653-03-23 (new)
Linked Manuscripts
Linked SermonsSermon on Psalms 19:7 -- preacher (autograph: no)
Linked Reports
Source of DataRichard Snoddy; David Robinson
Biographical Sources Consulted ODNB (Article: 40533); CCEd (Person ID: 45235)
Other NoteLikely Thomas Wilson, rector of Otham, Kent from 1631 to 1653. He was born ca. 1601 in Catterlen, Cumberland to yeoman parents. Matriculated from Christ's College, Cambridge, 1618; BA, 1622; MA, 1625. Schoolmaster at Charlewood, Surrey, ca. 1625-1629. Between 1629 and 1631, he briefly served at Capel, Surrey, Farlington, Hampshire, and Teddington, Middlesex. During this time he also married twice, his first wife died of consumption, and he remarried Damaris Cable, daughter of James Cable, London merchant with whom he had eleven children. In 1631, presented to the parish of Otham, Kent. Between 1635 and 1639, he was suspended from this post after he refused to read the reissued Book of Sports. His puritanism won him favour with parliament, however. Appointed town lecturer of Maidstone and as a Kent representative at the Westminster Assembly in 1642. Perpetual curate of Maidstone, 1644. Died of a fever in 1653, and buried 23 March at Maidstone.
GEMMS record createdNovember 09, 2015
GEMMS record last editedJanuary 14, 2019