John Wilson,
MUSICIAN,
Was born at Faversham in 1594, and was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal to Charles I. He was created doctor in music at Oxford in 1644; and in 1656 was elected professor of the same faculty to that University. After the Restoration he succeeded Dr. Lawes as musician to Charles II. Anthony Wood speaks of him as "the best at the lute in all England." He died in 1673. He composed much sacred music, and set many of the Odes, of Horace, as well as select passages from Ausonius, Claudian, and Petronius Arbiter.
[See Wood's "Athenæ Oxon." (Life.)]
Thomas Wilson,
DIVINE,
Author of a complete Christian Dictionary, a work which went through several editions, and was the first example in English of a Bible Concordance, was a Kentish man, though the place of his birth is uncertain. He became minister of St. George's Church, Canterbury, one of the Six Preachers of that City, and chaplain to Lord Wotton. Besides the above work he was the author of "A Commentary on the Romans," "Theological Rules," and a sermon on "Christ's Farewell to Jerusalem." He died in 1621.
[See Grainger's "Historical Biography," J. M. Cowper's "Register of St. George the Martyr" (Introduction), and Brook's "Lives of the Puritans."]
