Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p William Carus Wilson (7 July 1791 – 30 December 1859) was an English churchman and the founder and editor of the long-lived monthly The Children's Friend. He was the inspiration for Mr Brocklehurst, the autocratic head of Lowood School, depicted by Charlotte Brontë in her 1847 novel Jane Eyre.Wilson came from a landowning family based near Kirkby Lonsdale in Westmorland, and late in life inherited the estates, following his father's death in 1851.. }
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- William_Carus_Wilson comment "William Carus Wilson (7 July 1791 – 30 December 1859) was an English churchman and the founder and editor of the long-lived monthly The Children's Friend. He was the inspiration for Mr Brocklehurst, the autocratic head of Lowood School, depicted by Charlotte Brontë in her 1847 novel Jane Eyre.Wilson came from a landowning family based near Kirkby Lonsdale in Westmorland, and late in life inherited the estates, following his father's death in 1851.".