John Wilson FRSE was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
John Wilson
Wilson's house, Elleray painted by Alexander Nasmyth 1808
Prof John Wilson by James Fillans
John Wilson's grave, Dean Cemetery
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John Thomson Gordon FRSE was a Scottish advocate who served as Rector of Marischal College 1849-50 and Sheriff of Aberdeen 1847-48 and Edinburgh 1848–1865.
John Wilson (Scottish writer)
…Margaret Anne, married Professor James Frederick Ferrier Mary, his biographer, married John Thomson Gordon FRSE (1813–1865), sheriff of Midlothian and son of Dr John Gordon Jane Emily, married William Edmonstoune Aytoun…
Gordon was born at 14 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh: the ground floor and basement property to the left hand side of the picture