Thomas Wilson (schoolmaster)

[3] Towards the end of the eighteenth century Wilson became friends with Thomas Dunham Whitaker, and joined his literary club.

He was a successful schoolmaster, a versifier, and a social favourite, wit and raconteur, fond of punning.

[1] Wilson died on 3 March 1813, and was buried in the chancel of Bolton-by-Bowland church, where a tablet was erected with a Latin inscription by Whitaker.

[1] Wilson published in 1782 an Archæological Dictionary, or Classical Antiquities of Jews, Greeks, and Romans.

[1] Wilson married, on 29 April 1775, Susannah Tetlow of Skirden, widow of Henry Nowell, rector of Bolton-by-Bowland.