Wilson's School - Governors

Governors

An exhaustive list is to be found in Appendix A of "A Short History of Wilson's School". The following are particular highlights from this. Dates are of their governorships.

• Hugh Boulter, DD, 1708–1722, Chaplain to George I, Bishop of Bristol, Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland).
• Sir Edmund Bowyer, 1615–1626, a friend of the founder, Edward Wilson. His son, Edmund Bowyer the younger, was also a governor 1634–1681.
• William Cooper, 1651–1662, Chaplain to Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.
• Rev. Dr. George D'Oyly, 1820–1846, theologian, biographer and the main founder of King's College London.
• Jonathan Dryden, 1650–1653, second cousin to the poet John Dryden.
• Edmund Gibson, DD, 1703–1717, Bishop of Lincoln and later bishop of London.
• George Hooper, DD, 1675–1703, Bishop of St Asaph, later bishop of Bath and Wells. Chaplain to Charles II and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University.
• Wilfred H. Hore, TD, DL, MA, BSc, 1978–1984, Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Surrey and former Headmaster of Guildford Royal Grammar School.
• William Dalrymple Maclagan, 1869–1875, Rector of Newington and later Archbishop of York, author of hymns.
• Richard Meggott, DD, 1672–1677, a Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II.
• Sir Perceval Nairne, 1880–1921. One of the houses of the reconstituted school in Camberwell was named after him.
• John Nicholls, 1960–1968, Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II.
• Beilby Porteous, DD, 1767–1777, Rector of Lambeth and later Bishop of Chester and then London.
• William Bramley Taylor, 1901–1902, surgeon, churchwarden of Camberwell and Master of the Apothercaries' Company.
• Richard van Spangen, 1729–1754, sculptor, carver of the font in Dulwich College Chapel.
• Christopher Wordsworth, DD, 1816–1820, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, younger brother of the poet William Wordsworth.