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Adm. pens. (age 16) at PETERHOUSE, June 29, 1757. S. of John, of Howe, Applethwaite, Westmorland. B. there, Aug. 6, 1741. School, Staveley. ' Matric. Michs. 1757; B.A. (Senior Wrangler) 1761; M.A. 1764. Fellow, 1764. For a time a private tutor in Cambridge; coached William Paley for the Mathematical Tripos. His name is associated with a theorem in the theory of numbers, published by Edward Waring in his Meditationes Algebraicae. F.R.S. 1782. Adm. at the Middle Temple, Jan. 22, 1763. Called to the Bar, 1766. On the Northern Circuit. Bencher, May 10, 1782. Serjeant-at-Law, 1786. Judge of the Common Pleas, 1786. Knighted, 1786. A Commissioner of the Great Seal, 1792-3. Married, Apr. 7, 1788, M -, dau. of James Adair, Serjeant-at-Law, and had issue. Died Oct. 18, 1793, at Kendal; buried there.M.I. (T. A. Walker, 314; D.N.B.; Middle Temple Bench Book; Judges of England; Inns of Court; G. Mag., 1793, II. 965; Gunther, Early Science in Cambridge, 163, confuses him with John (1713-14).)
| Type | Name | Date | Qualification | University | Full Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appt | Wilson, John | 07/07/1764 | MA | View |