History of the Carlile family

HISTORY OF THE CARLILE FAMILY.
ninety-four. The Rev. Josias Wilson was educated at Glasgow
and at the Royal Belfast Institution, and studied elocution under
James Sheridan Knowles (b. 1784, d. 1862), then a dramatist, but
later a Nonconformist preacher, like his pupil. Josias Wilson
became Assistant Minister of the Presbyterian Church at Tassagh,
co. Armagh, in 1821, shortly afterwards removing to Drosjheda.
Here he stayed until 1836, when he became Minister of the
Presbyterian Church at Townsend Street, Belfast. Later he
removed (1844) to the Islington Church (now Colebrooke Row)
in London, and so great was his success there that the church had
to be enlarged in 1845. He died on 13 April, 1847, and was
buried at Highgate Cemetery. In 1850 Dr. Hugh Hastings
published (London, Nisbet) A Memoir of the Life and Labours
of the late Rev. Josias Wilson (with portrait]. There was one
child of the marriage, a daughter (see Begg, Agnes Warrand).
Mrs. Wilson went to live in New Zealand after the death of
her husband, and died there in 1875.