The Press.
London, England, 1858-02-06 00:00:00

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THE LATE RIGHT REV. DR. DANIEL WILSON, LORD
Btu Hoe OF CALCUTTA, whose death has been an-
nounced by a recent telegram from India, was the
friend of Wilberforce and Simeon, and a person of
note in his day. His lather, we believe, was a
respectable silk manufacturer of,the City of Lopdon,
and it was in Church-street, Spitalfields, that the
future bishop first saw the light. He was born in
1778, and consequjntly at the time of his decease
had entered on file eightieth year. He received his
early educatiopie#,*Mesuild's-ball, Oxford, which
he entered in I , lakefr his Bachelor's
degree. He was a"kti6CeWtil competitor for the
Chancellor's prize for an English essay in 1803; the
subject of his year was " Common Sense." He was
ordained in the year 1801, when he became curate of
Chobham and Bisley, Surrey. From 1803 to 1812
he held the post of vice-principal or tutor of his hall,
at the same time undertaking the ministerial charge
of the small parish of Worton, Oxfordshire. In 1808
a wider sphere of duty opened it elf I,e 4im ; for in
that year he VMS licensed as oriaiiktia. tote of St.
John's Chapel, Bedford-row, Blool4e t,ll .In 1812
he resigned his college offices on sole
minister of that chapel, which, during the twelve
years of his incumbency, was well known as the head-
qnarters of the Evangelical party in London. In
1824 he became vicar of St. Mary's, Islington, which
parish was then, and stills remains, in the patrunage
of his family. In 1832, mainly through the influence
of Lord Glenelg and his brother, the late Sir IL
Grant, M.P., Mr. Wilson was nominated to the im-
portant episcopal see of Calcutta, with a diocese
extending over the entire Presidency of Bengal, and
exercising a quasi-metropolitan jurisdiction over the
other sees of Bombay and Madras. This post he
held for just a quarter of a century, discharging its
duties with much energy and firmness as a devoted
minister of the gospel. His lordship was visitor
of Bishop's College, Calcutta, and enjoyed an annual
allowance of five thousand a year. Bishop Wil-
son VMS the author of several volumes of " Dis-
courses " and " Sermons," and of a very popular
"Tract on Confirmation." In 1803 he married a
daughter of William Wilson, Esq., of Worton-house,
Oxfordshire, and was left a widower in 1827. His
son, the Rev. Daniel Wilson, M.A., of Wadham Col-
lege, Oxford, still holds the valuable living of Isling-
ton, to which he succeeded at the elevation of his
father to the episcopate.
THE OLDEST KNIGHT BACHELOR, the venerable Sir
John Hamilton, died at Dover on the Ist instant, at
the residence of his shn-iv-law, Captain Luke
Stykhett, at the advanced age of ninety-three years.
Sir John Hamilton was a native of Dover, and was
born in 1705. He married just seventy years ago,
namely, in 1788, a daughter of the late Michael
Hedgcock, Esq., and the worthy couple lived together
as man and wife for no less than sixty-four years,
Lady Hamilton having deceased so recently as 1852.
Sir John Hamilton was a captain in her Majesty's
Packet Service, and a chevalier of the Belgian Order
of Leopold. He was knighted by her Majesty lR
1845, when he had just completed his eightieth year,
It may be interesting to our readers to learn that it
was the late Sir John Hamilton who communicated
to Admiral Lord Duncan the intelligence of the
Dutch fleet being under Admiral De Winter at sea,
which led to the glorious *tory of Olgurord(1114
Oct. 11, 1797.

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