Henry Wilson

Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was the 18th Vice President of the United States (1873–75) and a Senator from Massachusetts (1855–73). Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery. He devoted his energies to the destruction of the "Slave Power" – the faction of slave owners and their political allies which anti-slavery Americans saw as dominating the country.

Originally a Whig, Wilson was a founder of the Free Soil Party in 1848, and served as the party chairman during the 1852 presidential election. He worked diligently to build an anti-slavery coalition, which came to include the Free Soil Party, anti-slavery Democrats, New York Barnburners, the Liberty Party, anti-slavery members of the Native American Party (Know Nothings), and anti-slavery Whigs (called Conscience Whigs). When the Free Soil party dissolved in the mid-1850s, Wilson joined the Republican Party, which he helped found, and which was organized largely in line with the anti-slavery coalition he had nurtured in the 1840s and 1850s.

Henry Wilson (basketball)

Henry Wilson (born 1960s) is an American former basketball player best known for his collegiate career at Campbell University between 1985–86 and 1988–89. During his four-year tenure playing for the Camels, Wilson a 6'7" center, was a three-time First Team All-Big South Conference selection from his sophomore through senior seasons as well as a two-time All-Big South Tournament selection in 1987 and 1989. During his senior campaign in 1988–89, Wilson was named the Big South Player of the Year, becoming the fourth overall recipient of that award and the second player from Campbell in its then-brief history.

For his career, Henry compiled 1,604 points, 724 rebounds and a school record 156 blocked shots. At the time of his graduation he also held the school record for career games started with 107 (since surpassed).

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Henry Wilson (cricketer)

Henry Wilson (31 March 1865 – 18 August 1914) was an Australian cricketer. He played six first-class matches for Tasmania between 1889 and 1901.

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Henry Wilson (disambiguation)

Henry Wilson (1812–1875), eighteenth Vice President of the United States and U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.

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Henry Wilson (sailor)

Henry Wilson (1740–1810) was an English naval captain of the British East India Company, from Rotherhithe. He was in commanded of the British East India Company packet ship Antelope, when it shipwrecked off Ulong Island, near Koror Island in Palau in 1783, and the East Indiaman Warley at the Battle of Pulo Aura.

Voyage of 1783

The context was the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War; normal routes from China westwards for British shipping were hampered by the Dutch East Indies. The Antelope had been returning from Macau by the "Eastern Passage", a route designed to avoid the south-west monsoon, but had strayed too far in the easterly direction.

On the north coast of New Guinea Wilson anchored in the vicinity of the Schouten Islands. After some dialogue over two days with Papuan inhabitants who came out to the ship, in which Wilson used vocabulary collected by Thomas Forrest at Dory Harbour, Wilson felt the numbers he faced were threatening. He used small arms to deter them, and the crew of the Antelope was attacked, an encounter in which the artist Arthur William Devis was injured. The wreck on Ulong followed.

Henry Wilson (bishop)

The Rt Rev Henry Albert Wilson , CBE, DD (6 September 1876, Port Bannatyne – 16 July 1961) was an Anglican Christian bishop and author.

Biography

Henry Albert Wilson was educated at Camberwell Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Ordained presbyter in 1899, he began his career with a curacy at Christ Church, Hampstead, in London; after which he became Vicar of Norbiton. He was then Rural Dean of Cheltenham, until his elevation to the Episcopate in 1929 as the third Bishop of Chelmsford. A proposal to expedite divorce – by having divorce cases heard in a magistrates court rather than a higher court – prompted his strenuous objection in 1944: "the landslide in sexual morals" meant that Christianity was "hanging by a thread in this country today". He resigned in 1950, and retired to Southwold.

He died 16 July 1961.

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