Dr Charles Edward Wilson

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

FSA FEIS LLD (1815–1888) was a 19th-century Scottish teacher and educationalist who was Scotland's first HM Chief Inspector of Schools following the Education (Scotland) Act 1872.

Life

He was born on 31 August 1815 in Old Aberdeen. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School. He studied Classics at Aberdeen University graduating MA. In 1848 he became Classics Master at Glasgow Academy. In 1852 he became Assistant Inspector of Schools in Glasgow and in 1859 was promoted to Inspector. In 1870 Aberdeen University awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD). In 1873/74 he became the first Chief Inspector of Schools for all Scotland and he relocated to Edinburgh. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1877. His proposers were

Philip Kelland Philip Kelland PRSE FRS (17 October 1808 – 8 May 1879) was an English mathematician. He was known mainly for his great influence on the development of education in Scotland. Life Kelland was born in 1808 the son of Philip Kelland (d.1847), ...

, Peter Guthrie Tait, Alexander Buchan, and

John Gibson Fleming John Gibson Fleming FRSE PFPSG (1809-1879) was a Scottish surgeon, medical administrator and President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 1865 to 1868, and 1870 to 1872. Life He was born in Glasgow on 2 December 1809. H ...

. He died at 19 Palmerston Placeedinburgh Post Office Directory 1887 in Edinburgh on 18 March 1888. He is buried in

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Family

In 1860 he was married to Joanne Farquharson Robertson (1840–1891) twenty five years his junior. Their children included Anne Louisa Wilson (1865–1937) and Andrew Robertson Wilson (1870–1932).

References

1815 births 1888 deaths People from Aberdeen People educated at Aberdeen Grammar School Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Burials at the Dean Cemetery {{UK-bio-stub