Henry Bristow Wilson (1803–88)

Theologian. Fellow, St John’s College, Oxford, 1825–50. Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford University, 1839–44. Vicar, Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, 1850–88. Contributed an article to Essays and reviews (1860), as a result of which he was prosecuted for heterodoxy in the Court of Arches. His case was tried together with that of Rowland Williams; he was found guilty of three of the articles brought against him, but, as with Williams, the decision was reversed on appeal.