WILSON, Sir Adam, Canadian jurist, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 22 September, 1814. He emigrated to Canada in 1830, and during the succeeding three years was employed in the mills and store of his uncle, George Chalmers, in Trafalgar, Halton county. In 1834 he began to study law under Robert Baldwin Sullivan in Toronto, and in 1839 he was admitted to the bar of Upper Canada. In 1840 he entered into partnership with Robert Baldwin, leader of the Reform party, and on 28 November, 1850, was appointed a queen's counsel, being the same year elected a bencher of the Law society of Upper Canada. He was appointed in 1856 a commissioner for revising the statutes of Canada and of Upper Canada. elected mayor of Toronto in 1859 and 1860, and was the first to hold that office by popular election. He was in the Canada assembly for North York in 1859, and from May, 1862 till May, 1863, was solicitor-general in the Sandfield-Macdonald government, with a seat in the executive. On 11 May, 1863, he was appointed puisne judge of the court of queen's bench. Three months afterward he was transferred to the common pleas. He was reappointed to the queen's bench in 1868, became chief justice of the court of common pleas in 1878, and in 1884 was made chief justice of the court of queen's bench. In 1871 he was appointed a member of the law reform commission. He was knighted, 20 December, 1887. As a judge he has been noted for his learning and his mastery of the principles of law. He has published "A Sketch of the Office of Constable" (Toronto, 1861).