Benjamin Wilson (biblical scholar)

[1] Wilson was born in Halifax, England, probably in 1817,[2] but spent the majority of his life in the United States (to which he moved, initially to Geneva, Illinois, with his family, in 1844), where he died on May 8, 1900, in Sacramento, California.

[3] In August 1856, Benjamin Wilson and John Thomas finally met, as recorded in The Herald of the Kingdom for that year.

Then in 1865 when both groups registered with the Union Government as conscientious objectors using different denominational names the breach was made permanent.

Some other groups in Illinois who had previously associated with Wilson took the side of John Thomas, and registered with the Union Government as Christadelphians.

Wilson's main legacy consists in two areas: The original 1865 Fowler and Wells edition of the Emphatic Diaglott was one of the earliest interlinear Greek-English New Testaments published in America and thus had considerable influence.