Wilkinson, Henry (1616-01-01 - 1690-05-13)

GEMMS Person ID
GEMMS-PERSON- 112
(old series: GEMMS-PERSON-130)
Name
Henry Wilkinson
Title
Dr
Gender
Male
Denomination
Dissenter - Presbyterian
Lived
b. ca. 1616-01-01 d. 1690-05-13 (old)
Linked Sermons
Associated Places
Source of Data (Contributor name)

Richard Snoddy; Benjamin Durham; David Robinson

Biographical Sources Consulted

ODNB (Article: 29425); CCEd (ID: 16160)

Other note

Born ca. 1616 to William Wilkinson, priest at Adwick-le-Street, Yorskhire. Matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford in 1634. BA, 1635; MA, 1638; afterwards tutor and dean of Magdalen College. At the start of the civil war, he left Oxford to join the Westminster Assembly. Became minister at Buckminster, Leicestershire and Carfax, Oxford in 1642; vicar of Epping, Essex in 1643. Parliamentary visitor of Oxford University in 1647. Created BD in 1648; fellow and vice-president of Magdalen College in May of that year; principal of Magdalen Hall in August; Whyte Professor of moral philosophy in 1649. DD in 1652. In 1647, he married Elizabeth Gifford, who wrote a 'Narrative of God's Dealings with her', published after her death in 1654. Wilkinson married Anne Benson of Hackney, Middlesex the following year. Ardent parliamentarian, entertaining Oliver Cromwell and his commanders at Magdalen Hall in 1649, but he retained his living after the Restoration until the Act of Uniformity in 1662. Afterwards, he preached at Buckminster, but was jailed until 1665 for alleged complicity in the Farnley Wood plot. Received license as presbyterian teacher at Gosfield in 1672, but it was revoked later that year. He died 13 May 1690.

GEMMS record created
October 25, 2015
GEMMS record last edited
July 18, 2024