Sir Daniel Wilson

Sir Daniel Wilson (5 January 1816 – 6 August 1892) was a British-born Canadian archaeologist, ethnologist and author. Events 1477 - Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France. Year 1816 ( MDCCCXVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos Ethnology (from the Greek ἔθνος, ethnos meaning "habit custom convention" is the branch of Anthropology that compares and An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created

Wilson was born and educated in Edinburgh, and after acting as secretary of the Edinburgh Society of Antiquaries, went to Toronto as Professor of History and English Literature. Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario 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. 1851 ( MDCCCLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Thomas Chatterton ( November 20 1752 – August 24 1770) was an English poet and forger

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. Use these when the article is good enough to warrant images --> University College University of Toronto (abbreviated as UC) is one of the constituent colleges This article is about the University of Toronto's St George Campus Ironically he opposed the federation of colleges, particularly that of Victoria College, as a "Methodist plot". Victoria University ("Vic" for short is a Federated school of the University of Toronto, consisting of Victoria College and Emmanuel College

Sir Daniel. J. Wilson Residence at the University College in University of Toronto is named in his honor.

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature is a collection of biographies of writers by John William Cousin (1849-1910 published in 1910 London, J. M. Dent & sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.

References

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Ontario Plaques - Sir Daniel Wilson 1816–1892