William Adam Wilson


Prof William Adam Wilson OBE FRSE FBA FRSA was a 20th-century Scottish lawyer who served as Professor of Scots Law att Edinburgh University. He was known in authorship as W. A. Wilson and informally as Bill Wilson.
Edinburgh University's W. A. Wilson Memorial Lecture inaugurated in 1995, is named in his honour.

Life

He was born in Glasgow on 28 July 1928 the son of Hugh Wilson and his wife, Anne adam. He was educated at Hillhead High School.
He studied Law at Glasgow University graduating MA in 1948 and a LLB in 1951. He then practiced for several years as a solicitor before becoming a lecturer at Edinburgh University in 1960, being made a Senior lecturer in 1965. In 1972 he became the first Lord President Reid Professor of Law at the university. He became Dean of the Law Faculty in 1976.
In 1991 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Neil MacCormick, Kemp Davidson, Lord Davidson, Michael Yeoman, and John Terence Coppock.
He died in Edinburgh of cancer on 14 March 1994.

W. A. Wilson Memorial Lectures