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Wilson (JOHN pseudonym CHRISscholar)

JOHN, pseudonym, CHRISscholar and athlete; settled in Cumber- Magdalen College, Oxford; noted as a educated at Glasgow University and at Paisley, Scotland, May 18, 1785; was educated at Glasgow University and at Southey, and Coleridge. Losing most of Group" with Wordsworth, De Quincey, land, and became one of the "Lake Group" with Wordsworth, De Quincey, Southey, and Coleridge. Losing most of his inherited fortune, he removed to Edinburgh and studied law. From the starting of "Blackwood's Magazine" in 1817 he was a chief contributor, and was for many years its generally accredited head. For it he wrote (with Maginn and others, but largely alone) the "Noctes Ambrosianæ," by which he is best remembered-imaginary dialogues at Ama selection from these was published leading contributors to the magazine; a selection from these was published in 1876. He also wrote among other things: "The Isle of Palms" (1812), and "The City of the Plague" (1816), poems; "Lights and Shadows (1822); "The Trials of Margaret Lindsay" (1823); "The Foresters" (1825); ows of Scottish Life" , poems; and "Essay on the Genius and Character of Burns" (1841). He was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University from 1820 to near the end of his life. He died in Edinburgh, April 3, 1854. born