"Wilkins, John, D.D., an ingenious and learned English bishop, was born at Fawsley, near Daventry, Northamptonshire, in 1G14. He was educated at All- Saints', at New Inn Hall, and at Magdalen Hall, Ox- ford; took hoh' orders; became chaplain, first to Will- iam, lord Say, and then to Charles, count Palatine of the Rhine; took sides with the Parliament under Crom- well, and took the Solemn League and Covenant; was made warden of Wadham College in 1G48 ; became mas- ter of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1C59 ; ejected at the IJestoration the following year; became preacher to the honorable society of Gray's Inn and rector of St. Lawrence Jewry, London ; was chosen a member of the lioyal Society; was made dean of Ripon; became bish- op of Chester in 1668 ; and died at the house of Dr. Til- lotson, in Chancery Lane, London, Nov. 19, 1672. He published several mathematical and philosophical works, and the following, viz., Ecclesiastes, or a Discourse con- cerniwj the Gift of Preachinfj as it Falls under the Rules of A rt (164G ; best ed. 1778) : — Discourse concerning the lieavfij of Providence in all the Rur/ged Passages of It {IQi'A):— Sermons, etc. (1675): — Of the Principles and huties of Natural Religion (eod.). See Chalmers, Biog. Diet, s. v.
■Wilkinson, Henry (1), D.D., an English clergy- man, nepliew of the preceding, known as "Long Harry," was born at Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, in 1609. He enteretl as commoner in Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1622, where he made great proficiencj' in his studies, became a noted tutor, master of the schools, and divinity reader; took orders in the Church of England about 1638, but was suspended from preaching because of views ad- vanced in a sermon at St. Jlary's in September, 1640; was restored by the Long Parliament; removed to Lon- don, where he was made minister of St. Faith's, under St. Paul's, and appointed one of the Assembly of Di- vines; became rector of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West in 1645; was appointed one of the six ministers to go to Oxford to establish Presbyterian forms and practices; became fellow of Magdalen College, a canon of Christ Church, and Margaret professor of divinity in 1652; was deprived at the Restoration; and died at Clapham in September, 1675. He published several Sermons
preached before the Parliament. See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. V.
"Wilkinson, Henry (2), D.D., sometimes called Junior, but commonly known as " Dean Harry," an Eng- lish clergyman, cousin of" Long Harry," was bom at Ad- wick, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1616. He began his education at a grammar-school in All-Saints' parish, Oxford; entered a commoner of Magdalen Hall in 1631, where he graduated, took holy orders, became a noted tutor, and moderator or dean of IMagdalcn Hall; left the university on account of his Puritan principles in 1642; removed to London, took the Covenant, and preached frequently; under the supremacy of Parlia- ment he returned to C)xford, and became principal of Magdalen Hall and moral-philosophy reader; and suf- fered for Nonconformity after the Restoration while en- deavoring to preach at Buckminster, Leicestershire ; Gostield, Essex; Sible-Headingham ; and lastly at Con- nard, near Sudbury, Suffolk, where he died, ]\Iav 13, 1690. He was the author of. Condones Ties (1654): — Thi-ee Decades of Sermons (1660): — Catalogus Lihrorum in Bibliotheca Aulce Afagdalence (1661): — Two Treatises (1681): — and other works. See ChaXmcvs, Biog. Diet. s. V.
"Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner, D.C.L., F.R.S., a celebrated English traveller and Egyptologist, was born at Haxendale, Westmoreland, Oct. 5, 1797. He was the son of the Rev. John Wilkinson and a daughter of the Rev. Richard Gardner. He received his educa- tion at Harrow School and at Exeter College, Oxford. He afterwards went to Egypt, where he remained twelve years, devoting himself to the study of the antiquities of the country, and making himself acquainted with the languages, manners, and customs of the modern inhab- itants. He resided a considerable time in a tomb at Thebes, and employed himself in making accurate sur- veys of the district and drawings of the superb archi- tectural monuments, and in copying the sculptures, paintings, hierogh'phics, and other objects of interest then existing. In 1828 he published at Malta Materia IJivroghjphica, in four parts, and in 1835, in London, Topographij of Thebes and General Vieio of Egypt. In 1836 he began the publication of his great work. The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, printing the tirst series in 3 vols. 8vo — the second series, in 2 vols. 8vo, appearing in 1840. In 1843 he published Modem Egypt and Thebes, a new and condensed edition of which was published among Murray's Hand-books in 1847. In 1844 he travelled in Dalmatia and Montenegro, and in 1848 published Dalmatia and Montenegro, with a Jour- ney to Moslar, in Herzegovina, and Remarks on the Slavonic Xatio7is, etc. In 1850 he published The A r- chitecture of Ancient Egypt, and in 1851 The Fragments of the IJieixitic Papyius at Tut-in containing the Names of the Egyptian Kings, etc. In 1855-56 he revisited Egypt, and on his return published Egypt in the Time of the Pharaohs. He presented his collections of Egyp- tian, Greek, and other antiquities to Harrow School for the purpose of forming a museum, to which he added, in 1874, his valuable collection of coins and medals. In 1858 he published A Treatise on Color and the Getieral Diffusion of Taste among all Classes. He contributed many of the notes to Rawlinson's Herodotus, and pub- lished papers in the Transactions of the geographical and archajological societies in Great Britain. He died Oct. 29, 1875. A Memoir was published by his widow in 1876. Lord Ripon, in an address before the Royal Society of Literature, spoke thus of his great work on the ancient Egyptians: "Indefatigable in research, full of learning, accurate in facts, Sir Gardner Wilkinson has at the same time treated his subject with the en- thusiasm of genius and the liveliness of poetry. He opens to you the temple of their deities, the palace of their sovereign, the field of battle, and the repositories of the dead. He traces for you their early history, he exhibits to j'ou their knowledge of the arts and sciences.