Samuel Wilks

Background

He was son of Samuel Wilks of Newington, Surrey, and was educated for the church.

Education

He matriculated at Street Edmund Hall, Oxford, on 8 June 1810, aged 21, and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1814 and Master of Arts

Career

In 1816. He took holy orders, attached himself to the Clapham sect, and in 1816 succeeded Zachary Macaulay as editor of the Christian Observer, the organ of the section Wilks continued to edit the Christian Observer until 1850, when he was succeeded by John William Cunningham, and resided at the living of Nursling, near Southampton, to which he had been presented in 1847. He died there on 23 December 1872, in his eighty-fourth year, leaving several children.

Connections

Friend:

Charles Simeon