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...

During the mid-seventeenth century and Restoration, the study of natural philosophy was inextricably linked to questions of language. In fact, the "Scientific Revolution" can be characterized as a collection of interpenetrating and competing discourses rather than as a new set of practices or...

SUFFOLK -- SUFFOLK - John Ronald "Ronnie" Wilkins, 56, passed away March 11, 2008. He was born in Nansemond County the son of the late James Henry Wilkins and Ruby Nell Worley Wilkins. John was a former welder for Magco Inc. and was...