| Sir Daniel Wilson | |
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In office 1880 – 1892 |
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| Preceded by | John McCaul |
| Succeeded by | James Loudon |
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| Born | January 5, 1816 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | August 6, 1892 (aged 76) Toronto, Ontario |
Sir Daniel Wilson (January 5, 1816 – August 6, 1892) was a British-born Canadian archaeologist, ethnologist and author.
Wilson was born and educated at the Royal High School of Edinburgh, and after acting as secretary of the Edinburgh Society of Antiquaries, went to Toronto as Professor of History and English Literature. He was the author of Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time, The Archeology and Pre-historic Annals of Scotland (1851), Civilisation in the Old and the New World, a study on Thomas Chatterton, and Caliban, the Missing Link, etc.
Daniel Wilson served as president of University College, Toronto from 1880–1892 and as the first president of the federated University of Toronto from 1890–1892. He asserted their claims against the sectarian universities of the province which denounced the provincial university as godless, and against the private medical schools in Toronto. He advocated what he called “the maintenance of a national system of university education in opposition to sectarian or denominational colleges.” He opposed the federation of colleges, particularly that of Victoria College, as a "Methodist plot".
Sir Daniel J. Wilson Residence at the University College in University of Toronto is named in his honor.
John William Cousin, “
Wilson, Sir Daniel,” in A
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature,
London: J. M. Dent &
Sons, 1910. "Wilson,
Sir Daniel". Encyclopædia
Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
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| Preceded by Thomas Sterry Hunt |
President of the Royal Society of
Canada 1885-1886 |
Succeeded by Thomas-Étienne Hamel |
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