Men of Kent and Kentishmen/John Wilson
John Wilson,
MUSICIAN,
Was born at Faversham in 1594, and was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal to Charles I. He was created doctor in music at Oxford in 1644; and in 1656 was elected professor of the same faculty to that University. After the Restoration he succeeded Dr. Lawes as musician to Charles II. Anthony Wood speaks of him as "the best at the lute in all England." He died in 1673. He composed much sacred music, and set many of the Odes, of Horace, as well as select passages from Ausonius, Claudian, and Petronius Arbiter.
[See Wood's "Athenæ Oxon." (Life.)]