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See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
WILSON, See also:SIR See also:DANIEL (1816–1892) , archaeologist and See also:Canadian educational reformer, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 5th of See also:January 1816, the son of See also:Archibald Wilson, a See also:wine-See also:merchant, and See also:Janet Aitken. After studying at the High School and the University of Edinburgh, he spent the next ten years in journalism and in other forms of See also:literary See also:work (See also:London 1837–1842, Edinburgh 1842–1847). In 1845 he became secretary to the Scottish Society of Antiquaries, and in 1848 published Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
Time, of which the See also:chief value lies in the numerous illustrations, done by himself. In 1851 appeared his most important work, Prehistoric See also:Annals of See also:Scotland, which placed him in the front See also:rank of archaeologists. In 183 he became See also:professor of See also:History and See also:English Literature in the University of See also:Toronto, where his See also:practical ability and See also:energy soon made him the most important member of the See also:staff. While See also:writing extensively on the See also:archaeology and See also:anthropology of See also:Canada, and giving an impetus to the study, he produced nothing of lasting importance. His See also:main work See also:lay in asserting the claims of the University of Toronto, and of University See also:College, the teaching See also:body in connexion with it, against the See also:sect arias See also:universities of the See also:province which denounced the provincial university as godless, and against the private medical See also:schools in Toronto. Largely owing to Wilson's energy • in fighting for what he called " the See also:maintenance of a See also:national See also:system of university See also:education in opposition to sectarian or denominational colleges," the provincial university gained the chief position in the intellectual See also:life of See also:Ontario. Two of the sectarian universities, the Methodist and the See also:Anglican, have now become See also:united to the provincial university, but the Baptist and the Presbyterian (see See also:KINGSTON) still retain a vigorous existence. He was equally successful in his struggle against the See also:rival medical schools in Toronto, the chief of which is now incorporated with Toronto university. In his efforts to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape the See also:control of See also:local politicians he was less successful, and in some cases appointments to the provincial university were made for See also:political rather than for See also:academic reasons. Though seeing that in a See also:young and democratic See also:country the Scotch-See also:American See also:model must be followed rather than the English, and though resisting attempts to follow the practice of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford or See also:Cambridge, Wilson was a believer in the merits of a modified See also:form of the residential system. He was one of the first in Canada to See also:cast aside the classical tradition, and as See also:early as 186o had the courage to say: " It is just because . . . See also:German and See also:French are now the keys of so much See also:modern See also:philosophy and See also:science that all See also:wise University reformers are learning to give to modern See also:languages the See also:place they justly claim in a liberal education." In 1881 he was made See also:president of Toronto university; and in 1885 president of the literature See also:section of the Canadian Royal Society; in 1888 he was knighted; and in 1891 given the freedom of the See also:city of Edinburgh. He died at Toronto on the 6th of See also:August 1892.
See also:Record of See also:Historical Publications See also:relating to Canada, edited by G. M. Wrong, vol. v. (Toronto and London, 1901), pp. 199-217, gives a See also:good See also:sketch of his career, and a bibliography of his numerous See also:works. (W. L.
End of Article: WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
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