Wilson, George, 1751-1816

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Wilson, George, -1816
Wilson, George, d. 1816
Wilson, Georgii, 1751-1816

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Wilson, George, -1816
Wilson, George, d. 1816

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found: NUC pre-56(Wilson, George, d. 1816)

found: National Portrait Gallery (London) website, March 30, 2024:(George Wilson, esq. [esquire]; born December 1, 1751; died June 11, 1816; late of Lincoln's Inn; drawn by John Dowman (1789); Charles Picart (stipple engraving) (1818) after John Downman (1789)) - https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw195457

found: The records of the honorable society of Lincoln's Inn. The Registers of Admissions (records of the names of members admitted to the Inn) volume 1 (1420 to 1799), 1902:page 469 (George Wilson Esq.; gentleman; only son of Patrick W. of County Aberdeen; admitted on September 19, 1771) - https://archive.org/details/VOL114201799/page/n473/mode/2up?q=%22george+wilson%22

found: The records of the honorable society of Lincoln's Inn. The Black books (records the minutes of the Council, the Inn's governing body of benchers) volume 4 (1776-1845), 1902:page 97 (George Wilson, esquire; appointed to the King's Council on May 14, 1804) page 237 (George Wilson; called to the Bar (November 25, 1777)) - https://archive.org/details/recordsofhonorab04lincuoft/page/96/mode/2up?q=george+wilson - https://archive.org/details/recordsofhonorab04lincuoft/page/236/mode/2up?q=george+wilson

found: The Edinburgh Advertiser, June 18, 1816:page 13 (George Wilson; died on June 11, 1816 at his home on Forth Street in Edinburgh; esquire; late of Lincoln's Inn; one of his Majesty's Council) - https://newspaperarchive.com/edinburgh-advertiser-jun-18-1816-p-13/

found: London Star, June 22, 1816:page 4 (George Wilson; died on June 11, 1816 in Edinburgh; esquire; late of Lincoln's Inn; one of his Majesty's Council) - https://newspaperarchive.com/london-star-jun-22-1816-p-4/

found: Ancestry website, March 30, 2024:(George Wilson Esq.; born about 1751; died June 11, 1816 on Forth Street; buried in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland at St. Cuthberts cemetery in West Kirk Parish; late of Lincoln's Inn; one of her Majesty's Council (source is the Edinburgh, Scotland, Cemetery Registers, 1771-1935 with a picture of the entry in the cemetery register; written on June 14, 1816); Memoriae Sacrum Georgii Wilson, Aberdonensis, Angliae Legum Peritia Clari Et Ad Honorificum Regii Jurus Consulti Munus Ecivti Viri Priscae Per Omnes Vitae Gradus Et in Omni Vitas Officio Probatis-Simas. Natus Ipsis Calendis, Decembris Mdccli, Obiit Iii Idus Junii Mdcccxvi Anno Aetatis Lxv. Hic Quoque Conduntur Reliquae Sorosis Ejus Filii Caroli Bannerman Summae Spei Adolescentis Qui Lenta Tabe Consumptus Periir Xiv Cal Mart Mdcccxvi Anno Aetatus Xix. (Translates as Sacred to the memory of George Wilson, Aberdeen, England, Transparent and Legal Expertise and to Compliment the Ancient Royal Jurus Lawyers Office Ecivti Through All Stages of Life and in the Lives of All Office-Approved Condense; born December 1751; died June 3, 1916 at the age of 65; he also laid the remaining sorosis his son Charles Bannerman highest hope of a young man who slowly consumed by the wasting expenise died March 14, 1816 at the age of 19 (source: Scotland, Burial Monument Inscriptions, 1507-2019))) - https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/5543:62334

found: Bonhams (international auction house) website, March 30, 2024:(George Wilson (1751-1816), a prominent barrister of Lincoln's Inn and leader of the Norfolk circuit, who is buried in the Bannerman family grave in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh; the crest on this remarkable glass is almost certainly that of the Wilson family formerly of Fraserburgh, near Aberdeen, who employed the motto 'Venture and Gain' and are known to have been merchants in the area since the late 17th century; only three other cordial glasses from this set would appear to be recorded, including a pair offered by Sotheby's on 15 November 1994, lots 501 and 502 and again on 13 June 1995, lots 87 and 88; the third was sold by Christie's on 7 October 1996, lot 60; the style of enamelling belongs to a distinct group of enamelled glasses discussed by Simon Cottle, 'The Other Beilbys', Apollo (October 1986; pages 315-327); it is thought that some of these may have decorated in Scotland and could be the work of the Scottish enameller Anthony Taylor (1743-1803?), formerly of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and a contemporary of William Beilby; several related crested glasses exist in which the enameller has employed a similar limited palette of white and red and includes a set of wine glasses for Bannerman of Elsick inscribed 'Pro Patria', illustrated James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973; page 75 number 41), one of which was sold by Bonhams as part of the Peter Meyer Collection on May 1, 2013, lot 65; the Wilson and Bannerman families were connected by marriage: Charles Bannerman (1750-1813), the youngest brother of Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elsick, 6th Baronet, married Margaret Wilson (1761-1836) in Aberdeen in 1785 and her brother was George Wilson (1751-1816); related by marriage to distinguished physician Dr George Fordyce, he was a close friend of Sir Samuel Bentham in the 1770s, and subsequently Sir Samuel Romilly; his father, Patrick Wilson, had been a collector of customs in Aberdeen who had spent some years living on St. Kitts in the West Indies and himself was a close friend of the Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher James Beattie; both men were staunchly opposed to slavery and Wilson is mentioned in Beattie's Elements of Moral Science, vol. 2 (1793; page 63); it is highly plausible that this set of glasses was commissioned for either Patrick Wilson or his son George Wilson; footnote of a rare and important enamelled armorial opaque twist cordial glass of Scottish interest, circa 1765 which was auctioned on November 30, 2022) - https://www.bonhams.com/auction/27667/lot/147/a-rare-and-important-enamelled-armorial-opaque-twist-cordial-glass-of-scottish-interest-circa-1765/

found: The works of Jeremy Bentham, volume 10 (Memoirs part I and correspondence), 1843:page 199, etc. (George Wilson; died June 11, 1816 at home; good friend of Jeremy Bentham; he had lived at Aberdeen, where his father had been collector of the customs; he had been at Edinburgh University; he was related by marriage to Dr Fordyce; he was a first cousin to a Lord Forbes) - http://files.libertyfund.org/files/2085/Bentham_0872-10_EBk_v6.0.pdf

found: Monumental inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh (older portion) (compiled by John Smith. Edinburgh: Printed for the [Scottish Record] Society by J. Skinner & Company, Ltd.), 1915:page 53 (Memoriae Sacrum Georgii Wilson, Aberdonensis, Angliae Legum Peritia Clari Et Ad Honorificum Regii Jurus Consulti Munus Ecivti Viri Priscae Per Omnes Vitae Gradus Et in Omni Vitas Officio Probatis-Simas. Natus Ipsis Calendis, Decembris Mdccli, Obiit Iii Idus Junii Mdcccxvi Anno Aetatis Lxv. Hic Quoque Conduntur Reliquae Sorosis Ejus Filii Caroli Bannerman Summae Spei Adolescentis Qui Lenta Tabe Consumptus Periir Xiv Cal Mart Mdcccxvi Anno Aetatus Xix) - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.l0076778091&seq=79

found: Email from the Pritzker Legal Research Center of Northwestern University, May 6, 2024:(correct Latin transcription with English translation: Memoriae Sacrum Georgii Wilson, Aberdonensis, angliae legum peritia clari et ad honorificum Regii jurisconsulti munus evecti viri priscae virtutis per omnes vitae gradus et in omni vitae officio probatissimae. Natus ipsis Calendis Decembris MDCCLI. Obiit iii idus Junii MDCCCXVI anno aetatis lxv. Hic quoque conduntur reliqu[i]ae sororis ejus filii Caroli Bannerman summae spei adolescentis qui lenta tabe consumptus periit xiv Cal Mart MDCCCXVI anno aetatis xix; Sacred to the memory of George Wilson, of Aberdeen, famous for expert knowledge of the laws of England and raised to the honorable office of King's Counsel, a man in all the stages of life of a virtue as of former times and most approved in every duty of life. Born on the very Calends of December 1751. He died three days before the Ides of June 1816, at the age of 65. Here also are laid the remains of his sister's son, Charles Bannerman, a young man of the highest promise, who died consumed by a slow wasting, on the fourteenth day before the Calends of March 1816, at the age of nineteen)

Wilson, George, 1751-1816

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