Thomas Wilson (1726-22 September 1799) was an Irish academic and clergyman most of whose career was spent at

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(TCD), where he served as the fifth

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(1769-1786).

Life and career

Thomas Wilson was born in

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, son of the Rev John Wilson. He was educated at TCD, where he was a Scholar (1746) and was in the same class as

Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who is best known for his novel ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1766), his pastoral poem ''The Deserted Village'' (1770), and his pl ...

. He obtained BA (1848), MA (1853), BD (1758), DD (1864), and was elected a Fellow (1853), and later, Senior Fellow. He was

(1769-1786), and was appointed Archbishop King's Lecturer in Divinity (1785). He resigned from TCD in 1786 to become Rector of

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Thomas Academics of Trinity College Dublin Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Classical scholars of Trinity College Dublin Scholars of Trinity College Dublin Fellows of Trinity College Dublin Provosts of Trinity College Dublin Donegall Lecturers of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin Irish mathematicians People from County Donegal 1726 births 1799 deaths