Biography of john wilson
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WILSON, JOHN, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 5 Feb. 1807 at Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, eldest son of Ebenezer efternamn and jean Adam; d. 3 June 1869 in Westminster Township, Ont.
John Wilson’s family, having first gone to Halifax, Nova Scotia, from Scotland, settled near Perth, Upper Canada, about 1823. John attended district common and grammar schools, then taught school himself before beginning the study of law at Perth in 1830 in the office of James Boulton. On 13 June 1830 he shot and killed fellow law lärling Robert Lyon in what was, reportedly, the province’s last duel. Wilson, who despised “unchaste conversation,” had informed Lyon’s fiancée of some insulting remarks Lyon had made about her. She disavowed Lyon, and he blamed Wilson; a fist kamp followed, then the fatal duel. efternamn and his second, Simon Robinson, surrendered, were tried for murder, and were acquitted.
Admitted a lawyer in 1835, efternamn assumed responsibility
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John Wilson
Biography
John Wilson's father was James Wilson, the rector of James Wilson Academy, Bannockburn, Stirlingshire. John Wilson was an undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh and graduated with an M.A. He then entered the New College where he was trained for the ministry, becoming a licensed preacher in the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh. Wilson did not seek a charge, but instead went to help his father at James Wilson Academy, Bannockburn [1]:-In addition to his work in Bannockburn he established and conducted evening science classes in Stirling long before work of this kind was taken up by the Educational Boards.Wilson's father retired from being rector of the Academy and Wilson took charge of the school until 1887 when it was merged with the Public School. He then moved to Edinburgh and became a Tutor in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy:-
[He] soon acquired a sound reputation as a conscientious and efficient teacher ... His 'Notes on Physics and Natural Phi•
John Wilson (Scottish writer)
For other people named John Wilson, see John Wilson (disambiguation).
Scottish advocate, literary critic, and author (1785–1854)
John WilsonFRSE (18 May 1785 – 3 April 1854) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
He was professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1820 to 1851.
Life and work
[edit]Wilson was born in Paisley, the son of John Wilson, a wealthy gauze manufacturer who died in 1796, when John was 11 years old, and his wife Margaret Sym (1753–1825).[2] He was their fourth child, and the eldest son, having nine sisters and brothers.
He was educated at Paisley Grammar School and entered the University of Glasgow aged 12 (14 being the usual age at that time), and continued to attend various classes for six years, mostly under Professor George Jardine, with whose