Thomas Wilson (academic)

Thomas Wilson (1726-22 September 1799) was an Irish academic and clergyman most of whose career was spent at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where he served as the fifth Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1769-1786).[1]

Life and career

Thomas Wilson was born in Donegal, son of the Rev John Wilson. He was educated at TCD, where he was a Scholar (1746) and was in the same class as Oliver Goldsmith. He obtained BA (1848), MA (1853), BD (1758), DD (1864), and was elected a Fellow (1853), and later, Senior Fellow. He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1769-1786),[2] and was appointed Archbishop King's Lecturer in Divinity (1785). He resigned from TCD in 1786 to become Rector of Ardstraw, Tyrone.[3]

gollark: My very old and bad storage system used to have an autocrafting system, but it was very primitive and could only handle simple cases where there's only one way to make each thing.
gollark: Well, this is interesting, at least the bits I vaguely understand.
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References
  1. Burtchaell, G. D., and Sadleir, T. U. (eds), Alumni Dublinensis: A Register of the Students, Graduates, Professors and Provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin, 1593–1860 (Dublin, 1935), p. 888
  2. Erasmus Smith's Professors A General History of Ireland: in its Ancient and Modern State, By John Angel
  3. County Tyrone Ireland Genealogy Research: Incumbants of Ardstraw
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