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Williams, Rev. William White.

Its Pastor. An American clergyman of Toledo, Ohio.

Williamson, Hugh, M.D., LL.D., 1735-1819. S;ilvius; A Gentleman. An American physician ; b. at West Notting- ham, Penn.; cduc. in Pliiladelphia and in Europe ; spent the last years of his life ill New York City, and d. there.

Williamson, Rev. James, M.A. A Clergi/man. An English clergyman of St. Alban Hall, Oxford.

Williamson, Mrs. Sarah E. (Carmi- c.hael). Sarah E. Carmichael. An Amer- ican poet; a Western writer of the day.

Willis, Browne, Esq., LL.D., 1682- 1760. .-1 Gentleman; B. W., Esq.; B. W., Esq., a Member of the Societi/ of Anti- quaries. An English antiquary ; b. at St. Mary Blandford, county IDorsct; ediic. at Westminster and Oxford; M.P. for the town of Buckingham, 1705; d. at Whaddon Hall.

Willis, Mrs. Katherine, -1724. A Gentlewoman in the Countrij. An English lady ; daughter of Daniel Elliot, Esq. ; married to Browne Willis in 1707.

Willis, Nathaniel Parker. N. P. W.

See " I. and P.," First Series, p. 594.

Willis, WUliam, 1794-1870. W. W. An American historian ; b. at Haverhill, Mass. ; Harv. Coll., 1813 ; admitted to the bar, 1817 ; settled in Portland, Me., and d. there.

WlUoughby, Sir Henry Pollard, 3d Bart., 1796. An English Landowner. An English baronet of Baldon House, county Oxford ; succeeded his brother in 1813; M.P. for Evesham.

Wills, Rev. WiUiam(l), M.A. A Minister of the Church of England. An English clergyman ; vicar of Edlington, Lincolnshire.

Wilmer, Albert S. Lavant^.

Wilmer, Rt. Rev. Joseph Pere Bell. I'he Bishop of Louisiana. An American Episcopal clergyman.

WUmot, John, 2d Earl of Rochester, 1647 or 1648-80. B. IL the E. of B. An English nobleman; educ. at AVadliam Coll., Oxford ; returned from his travels in France and Italy in his eighteenth year; distinguished himself in naval en- gagements against the Dutch in 1665 and 1666; attached himself to the court, where he was noted for drunkenness, buffoonery, and poetry.

Wilmot, John Eardley, Esq., 1749- 1815. Junior. An English lawyer and writer; educ. at Oxford; removed from college to the Temple ; admitted to the bar and went the Midland Circuit ; mas-

ter in chancery, 1783-1804; d. at Tot- tenham.

Wilson, Andrew, M.D. An Impar- tial Inquirer.

See " I. and P.," First Series, p. 594.

Wilson, Mrs. Augusta J. (Evans), 1835-. Augusta J. Evans. An American novelist of the day ; b. near Columbus in Georgia ; after some years the family re- moved to Mobile, Ala. ; her home was at Summerville, near that city ; in 1868 Miss Evans was married to Mr. L. M. AVilson of Jlobile, but still in 1872 re- sided in Summerville.

Wilson, Daniel, D.D. A Clergyman ; A Member of the Societi/.

See " I. and P.," First Series, p. 595.

Wilson, Rev. Daniel, 1806-86. The Vicar of Islington. An English clergy- man ; son of Bishop Daniel Wilson ; educ. at Wadham Coll., Oxford ; when his father was made bishop in 1832, he succeeded to the living of Islington ; was vicar there for more than fifty years, and d. there.

Wilson, Erasmus. Quiet Obseri'er. An American journalist; correspondent or editor of the Pittsburg " Despatch."

Wilson, Harriet. //. C. Wittol.

Wilson, Henry Schutz. Herbert Gray. An English writer ; b. in London, and in 1886 resident there.

WUson, James. J. W.

See " I. and P.," First Series, p. 595.

Wilson, James Holbert. A Member of the Inner Temple. An English lawyer ; a writer of London.

Wilson, James Patriot, D.D., 1769- 1830. A Christian. An American Pres- byterian clergyman ; b. at Lewes, Sussex Co., Del.; Univ. of Penn., 1788; pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Phila- delphia, 1806-30; d. at his farm in Bucks Co.,about twenty miles from Philadelphia.

Wilson, Prof. John. Mordecai Mul- lion, private Secretary to Christopher North ; J. W. ; Crusty Christopher.

See " I. and P.," First Series, p. 595.

Wilson, Rev. John. A Protestant. A Scottish minister of Irvine, Ayrshire.

Wilson, Joshua. Biblicus. An Eng- lish religious writer.

Wilson, Robert. A Sabbath-school Teacher. An English religious writer of the day.

Wilson, W. V. S. W. r. W. An American Shakespearian writer of Wash- ington, D.C.

Wilson, William Carus, B.A., and others. The Editors of the "Children's Friend."

See " I. and P.," First Series, p. 596.