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THOMAS WILSON (1663-1755)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 696 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:WILSON (1663-1755)  , See also:English See also:bishop, was See also:born at See also:Burton, See also:Cheshire, and educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin . He was ordained in 1686, and became See also:curate at Newchurch See also:Kenyon, See also:Lancashire . In 1692 he was appointed See also:chaplain to the 9th See also:earl of See also:Derby, who in 1697 offered him the bishopric of Sodor and See also:Man . He was consecrated bishop in 1698 . His episcopate was marked by a number of reforms in the Isle of Man . New churches were built, See also:libraries founded and books were printed in See also:Manx, his Principles and Duties of See also:Christianity (See also:London, 1707) being the first See also:book published in that See also:language . He also encouraged farming, and set the example of planting See also:fruit and See also:forest trees . In See also:order to restore discipline in the See also:island he See also:drew up in 1704 his well-known Ecclesiastical Constitutions . The judgments of his courts often brought him into conflict with the See also:governors of the island, and in 1722 he was even imprisoned for a See also:time in See also:Castle Rushen . In 1737, however, the See also:jurisdiction of the See also:civil and spiritual courts was better defined by new statutes, the lordship of the island having passed in 1736 to See also:James See also:Murray, 2nd See also:duke of See also:Atholl, with whom See also:Wilson had no See also:personal difficulties . In 1749 on See also:Zinzendorf's invitation he accepted the See also:title of Antistes—a synonym for bishop—in the Moravian See also:Church . A See also:life of Wilson, by See also:John See also:Keble, was published with his See also:Works (See also:Oxford, 1847-1863) .

The Sodor and Man Theological School in the Isle of Man is called in his memory the Bishop Wilson School .

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