Education
He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, on 14 February 1623, aged 12, graduated Bachelor of Arts on 25 November 1626, Master of Arts
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Henry Wilkinson
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Later he was a nonconformist preacher. On 11 June 1629, and Bachelor of Divinity on 16 November 1638. He preached in and about Oxford.
Foreign a sermon attacking some of the ceremonies of the church, preached at Saint Mary"s on 6 September 1640, Wilkinson was suspended from his divinity lecture, and from all his priestly functions in the university until he should recant.
He appealed to the Long parliament, and in December 1640 was restored by the committee of religion of that body, who ordered the sermon to be printed. In 1646 he was one of the six preachers despatched by the Long parliament to Oxford, where he was chosen senior fellow of Magdalen, and deputed a parliamentary visitor.
On 12 April 1648 he was appointed canon of Christ Church on the expulsion of Doctor Thomas Iles. He was created Doctor of Divinity on 24 July 1649, and elected Lady Margaret professor of divinity on 12 July 1652, which office he filled until 1662.
In 1654 he served on the commission for ejecting scandalous ministers from Oxfordshire.
He was known in Oxford as "Long Harry" or "senior" to distinguish him from another Henry Wilkinson (1616–1690) known as "Dean Harry". After the Restoration he was ejected from his professorship by the king"s commissioners and left Oxford. Wilkinson preached first at All Hallows, Lombard Street, and afterwards at Clapham.
A conventicle of sixty or more persons to whom he was preaching was broken up at Camberwell in August 1665.
He was well known around London as a preacher, and when he died on 5 June 1675. either at Deptford or Putney, his body was conducted by many hundreds of persons to Drapers" Hall, and thence to its burial in Saint Dunstan"s Church. Some of his sermons were published in Samuel Annesley’s Morning Exercise, 1661, and Supplement, 1674 (republished in 1844).
His father, who was elected fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1586, was created Bachelor of Divinity on 7 July 1597, and was from 1601 till his death on 19 March 1647 rector of Waddesdon. He was chosen one of the Westminster divines in 1643.
He published A Catechism (4th edit London, 1637), and The Debt Book, or a Treatise upon Rom. xiii.
8 (London, 1625).
Membership
Subsequently Wilkinson moved to London, was appointed minister of Saint Faith"s under Saint Paul"s, chosen a member of the Westminster Assembly, and in 1645 became rector of Saint Dunstan"s-in-the-East.
