John Wilson (English judge)
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Wilson attended school in Staveley, Cumbria before going up to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1757,[2] where he was a student of Edward Waring. He was Senior Wrangler in 1761.[2] He was later knighted, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1782. He was Judge of Common Pleas from 1786 until his death in 1793.
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- C. M. Neale (1907) The Senior Wranglers of the University of Cambridge. Available online
- Robinson, Derek John Scott. An introduction to abstract algebra. 2003. Walter de Gruyter. Template:ISBN
- ↑ [[[:Template:Google books]] Robinson (2003), p. 50].
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