John Wilkins was a man of often contested qualities and allegiances whose life illustrates the profoundly complex and turbulent culture of seventeenth-century England. Both the brother-in-law of Oliver Cromwell and the father-in-law of John Tillotson,...

1614-1672 English mathematician and inventor who studied at Oxford and became an Anglican clergyman. During the English Civil War he sided with parliament, which helped him obtain a Wardenship at Oxford. He married Robina, sister of Oliver Cromwell...

John Wilkins (1614-01-01 - 1672-11-19), an English clergyman, is the only person to have headed a college at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He married Oliver Cromwell's sister, Robina. He was the first secretary of the...