Bishop
John
Wilkins
Born about in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England
Son of Walter Wilkins
and Jane (Dod) Wilkins
Husband of
Robina (Cromwell) Wilkins
— married
1656 in England
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 58
in Cheshire, England
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Biography
John Wilkins is Notable.
According to the Dictionary of National Biography John was born in 1614 at the house of his grandfather, John Dod, in Fawsley, Northamptonshire. He was the son of Walter Wilkins, an Oxford goldsmith, and "a daughter" of John Dod. [1]
The will of Walter Wilkins of the City of Oxford, goldsmith, dated 11 Feb 1621 and probated 06(?) Nov 1623 states "I give to my sonne John Wilkins, forty pounds to be paid him when he is one and twenty years old". It also mentions his overseers "Timothy Dod of Hanwell and my Brother Thomas Wilkins", as well as other children. [2]
- Time at Broughton with Saye & Seale (Fiennes family - explorer Ranulph & actor Ralph & ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross.)
- London
- English Civil War
- Oxford Uni - Science group >> RS
- Marriage ???? children
- Camibridge Uni
- London
- Chester / York - Bishop
- Great Fire of London
- Death
The very first ‘learned society’ meeting on 28 November 1660 followed a lecture at Gresham College by Christopher Wren. Joined by other leading polymaths including Robert Boyle and John Wilkins, the group soon received royal approval, and from 1663 it would be known as 'The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge'.[3]
Problems: "In 1656 Wilkins married Robina French, the widow of an Oxford colleague, Peter French, and youngest sister of the Protector , Richard Cromwell, who had succeeded his father Oliver"[4] All other sources I see put Robina as Oliver Cromwell's sister, not niece. Not sure about the child, nothing mentioned in the histories, Robina had a daughter by her marriage to Peter French.
Sources
- ↑ Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922. Volumes 1–22. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1921–1922: Vol 21 page 264. Ancestry.com. Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Collection indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Ancestry.co.uk subscription site
- ↑ Oxfordshire Wills Index 1516-1857; 70/2/23; Will 197.78. British Record Society and findmypast
- ↑ https://royalsociety.org/about-us/history/
- ↑ http://www.bishopwilkins.co.uk/bishop-john-wilkins/
See also:
- https://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/associate/john-wilkins-1614-1672
- http://www.bishopwilkins.co.uk/bishop-john-wilkins/
- https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsnr.1960.0004
- https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/wilkins/wilkins.html
- https://royalsociety.org/
- Fiennes, R. Mad Dogs and Englishmen: an expedition round my family (2009, London, Hodder & Stoughton) ISBN: 978 0 340 92502 7
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John Wilkins FRS (14 February 1614 – 19 November 1672) was an Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society. He was Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death.
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Re. The father of John Wilkins. He was Walter Wilkins died 1625 Goldsmith of Oxford who married Jane Dod daughter of Puritan Minister John Dod.
Walter Wilkins, apprentice of the goldsmith William Wright gained the Freedom Of the City in 1610. A "Wilkins The Smith" was paid 9 shillings in 1614-1618 for the "chaining of 152 volumes in folio" for The New Bodleian Library.