The New Student's Reference Work/Wilson, Sir Daniel

DANIEL WILSON

Wilson, Sir Daniel, a Scoto-Canadian educator and archaeologist and from 1881 to 1892 president of Toronto University, was born at Edinburgh in 1816. Famous “Kit North” was his brother. In 1853 he was appointed professor of history and English literature in University College, Toronto, succeeding to the presidency in 1881. His writings embrace Prehistoric Man; Prehistoric Annals of Scotland; Memorials of Edinburgh; Caliban the Missing Link; and a study of Chatterton. He was knighted in 1888, and died at Toronto, Aug. 7, 1892.