George Wilson

(1751 c.-1816)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wilson, George, d. 1816 LBT ID: GeWilso1816 VIAF ID: 127418135 LOC ID: no90006240	B/BAP: 1751 DIED: 1816-06-11
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (11 June 1816) 573; European Magazine 70 (July 1816) 84; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Born in Aberdeen and educated at Lincoln's Inn, he was a barrister on the Norfolk Circuit and close friend of Jeremy Bentham.
REFERENCES TO George Wilson: Sir James Mackintosh to John Whishaw, 21 February 1806 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 6 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 2 March 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1810 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter XIII: 1806-40