James Wilson (1774? – 24 April 1829) was an Irish mathematician whose career was spent at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

(TCD). He was born in

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, his father being William, and was brought up there. He studied at TCD, graduating BA (1794), MA (1800) and later BD & DD (1811). While at TCD he was elected a Fellow (1800), was Donegall Lecturer (1807–1820), and

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(1822–1825). He spent his final years as Rector of

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(

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) (1825–1829)., page 25

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* Burtchaell, G. D., and Sadleir, T. U. (eds), ''Alumni Dublinensis'': A Register of the Students, Graduates, Professors and Provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin, 1593–1860 (Dublin, 1935)
Mathematics at TCD 1592–1992
TCD School of Mathematics: The Eighteenth Century
The Dublin University Calendar For The Year 1877
TCD School of Mathematics
Armagh clergy and parishes
compiled by James B. Leslie {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, James Academics of Trinity College Dublin Donegall Lecturers of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin Fellows of Trinity College Dublin 19th-century Irish mathematicians 1770s births 1829 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin