Edmund Wilson (physician)

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Edmund Wilson MD FRCP (1583 – September 1633) was a Canon of Windsor from 1616 to 1617[1] and a physician.

Family[edit]

He was the son of William Wilson, Canon of Windsor.

Career[edit]

He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge where he graduated BA in 1601, MA in 1606, MD in 1613.

He was appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1615 and practised as a physician in Windsor and London.[2]

He was appointed to the seventh stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1616 and held the canonry until 1617 when he was deprived of it for not having been ordained priest within a year of his installation.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
  2. ^ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 42 1888, Volume 42. p.177. Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Heritage Books, 1 Dec 1996