Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wilson, John (7)
Wilson, John, s. John, of Paisley, co. Renfrew, arm. Magdalen Coll., matric. 26 May, 1803, aged 18; B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, 'poet, critic, and prose writer,' the Christopher North of 'Blackwood's Magazine,' and its chief editor 1817, author of 'Noctes Ambrosianæ,' a student of Lincoln's Inn 1806, an advocate of the Scottish bar 1815, professor of moral philosophy, Edinburgh, 1820-51, died April, 1854.