WILSON, Peter, educator, born in Ordiquhill, Banff, Scotland, 23 November, 1746; died in New Barbadoes, New Jersey, 1 August, 1825. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen, where he paid particular attention to classical studies. Removing to New York city in 1763, he soon found employment as a teacher, and was called to be the principal of Hackensack (New Jersey) academy, where, over the front windows of his residence, his own and his wife's name are still to be seen cut in the stone. In 1775 he threw himself with great zeal into the political movements that preceded the Revolution, and from 1777 till 1783 he served in the New Jersey legislature. In the latter year he was appointed to revise and codify the laws of that state. In 1789 he was elected professor of Greek and Latin in Columbia, and he held the office until 1792, when he resigned to become principal of Erasmus Hall, Flatbush, L.I. In 1797 he was recalled to Columbia as professor of Greek and Latin and of Grecian and Roman antiquities, which chair he filled until 1820, when he was retired with a pension by the trustees. He received the degree of LL. D. from Union in 1798. He published "Rules of Latin Prosody, for the Use of Schools" (New York, 1810) ; "Introduction to Greek Prosody" and " Compendium of Greek Prosody" (1817); together with editions of Sallust, Longinus, the Greek Testament, and revised Dr. Alexander Adams' "Roman Antiquities" (1826).