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|name=Daniel Wilson
|image=Bishop Daniel Wilson.JPG
|caption= Wilson in 1832
|birth_date={{birth date|1778|7|2|df=y}}
|birth_place=[[Spitalfields]], [[London]], England
|death_date={{death date and age|1858|1|2|1778|7|2|df=y}}
|nationality=English
|death_place=[[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
|resting_place=[[St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata]], India
}}
'''Daniel Wilson''' (2 July 1778 – 2 January 1858) was an English [[Anglican Diocese of Calcutta|Bishop of Calcutta]].

==Life==
[[File:Daniel Wilson Calcutta.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait sketch by [[Colesworthey Grant]]]]
Born in [[Spitalfields]], [[London]], Wilson was educated at [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford]] (BA, 1802; MA, 1804; DD, 1832); was ordained and became curate of [[Richard Cecil (clergyman)|Richard Cecil]] at [[Cobham, Surrey|Cobham]] and [[Bisley, Surrey|Bisley]] in Surrey, where he developed into a strong Evangelical preacher; was tutor or vice-principal of [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford]], and minister of [[Worton (civil parish), Oxfordshire|Worton, Oxfordshire]], 1807 to 1812; assistant curate at [[St John's Chapel, Bedford Row]], [[Bloomsbury]], 1808 to 1812 (where Richard Cecil had earlier been incumbent); sole minister there, 1812 to 1824; and vicar of [[St Mary's Church, Islington]], 1824 to 1832, when he was consecrated [[Anglican Diocese of Calcutta|Bishop of Calcutta]] and first [[Metropolitan archbishop|Metropolitan]] of India and Ceylon. He founded an English church at [[Rangoon]], [[Ceylon]], in 1855 and [[St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata|St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta]] (consecrated 1847). He was an indefatigable worker and as bishop was noted for fidelity and firmness. He also founded [[Dhaka College]] on 18 July 1841. It was completed in 1846 with the aid of the [[Anglican Diocese of Calcutta|Bishop of Calcutta]].

Wilson founded the [[Islington Clerical Conference]] in 1827 in his library. In 1831, Wilson was one of the founders of the [[Lord's Day Observance Society]]. He was associated with the [[Clapham Sect]] of evangelical Anglicans, the best known of whom is [[William Wilberforce]].

In 1835, Wilson was noted for calling India's caste system "a cancer".

He died in Calcutta in 1858 and is buried in [[St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata]].

==Family==
[[File:Daniel Wilson Jr (priest).jpg|thumb|140px|Daniel Wilson, the younger]]
When Bishop Wilson left for India, his son Daniel Frederick Wilson, who was only twenty-seven at the time, took over as Vicar of Islington and served as such for over forty years. Another son became a missionary to indigenous Canadians in the [[Diocese of Algoma]] in the [[Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario]].<ref>''Church Bells'' Vol.5 No.210 p.50 (2 January 1875) W. Wels Gardner, London</ref> His daughter was fostered by [[Anne Woodrooffe]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=29933|title=Woodrooffe, Anne|first=Elisabeth|last=Jay}}</ref>

==Selected writings==
* Numerous sermons published separately and in collections
* ''The Evidences of Christianity, . . . a Course of Lectures'' (2 vols., London, 1828–1830)
* ''Bishop Wilson's Journal Letters, addressed to his Family the first Nine Years of his Indian Episcopacy'' (1863; edited by his son [[Daniel Wilson, Vicar of Islington]])
* ''The Divine Authority and Perpetual Obligation of the Lord's Day, asserted in seven sermons'' (London, 1831) (in print, from [https://web.archive.org/web/20041222200133/http://www.dayone.co.uk/books/the-lord's-day.htm Day One])

==Bibliography==
* Journal Letters (see above)
* ''The Life of The Right Rev. Daniel Wilson, D.D., Late Lord Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India'' by [[Josiah Bateman]], 2 vols, London, 1860 [https://archive.org/details/liferightrevdan00wilsgoog volume 1] [https://archive.org/details/liferightrevdan02bategoog volume 2]
* ''History of the [[Church Missionary Society]]'' by [[Eugene Stock]], London, 1899.
* MacAulay, in [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2647 ''Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay''] appears to suggest that there was a life written by Wilson's successor at Bedford Row, [[Baptist Wriothesley Noel]] (see [http://www.davidnoel.com/noel/index.php?id=history&sec=10-1]), but this seems not to be listed at [http://copac.ac.uk COPAC].
* Andrew Porter, ‘Wilson, Daniel (1778–1858)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29646]

==External links==
* [http://www.baldaeus.com/html/0066.html ''Bishop Wilson and the Origins of Dalit Liberation'']
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927232038/http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=019PHO000000394U00065000 St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050904062359/http://home1.gte.net/gschmid/efwilson.htm Rev E F Wilson (grandson) family history page]
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=2310 British History Online ''A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes'' page on Churches]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050207181010/http://www.stmaryislington.org/history/index.html St Mary's, Islington, official history page]

== References ==
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* Initial text of article from ''The New [[Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge]]'', edited for style, and with additions [http://www.ccel.org/php/disp.php3?a=schaff&b=encyc12&p=376]
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