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1985: 49: 2174: 1142: 2379: 2391: 447:, a profession which would have meant abandoning his family religion, Wilson decided instead to learn business, and at the age of sixteen became an apprentice in a hat factory. Later, his father bought the business for him and his elder brother, William. When James Wilson was nineteen, the brothers left Scotland and migrated to London, with a gift of 536:, and acted as Chief editor and sole proprietor for sixteen years. His overarching goal to end vested interests in the Westminster parliament wherever these led to poverty or starvation, as the Corn Laws most notably had done. An article Wilson published in April 1848 in opposition to the 548:
is still published today, now with a weekly circulation of over 1.6 million globally. Wilson was the most respected statistician of his times and saw economics as an optimistic and rational way of mediating socially sustainable futures drawing on the Scottish School of
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father William Wilson owned a hat manufactury, and his ancestors were local sheep farmers. He was the fourth of fifteen children, of whom ten reached adulthood. His mother died when James was young.
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The brothers established a manufacturing factory—Wilson, Irwin & Wilson—that they dissolved in 1831. Wilson continued in the same line of business with much success (his
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but hated it so much that he "would rather to be the most menial servant in father's mill". After considering studying law with a view to becoming an
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was £25,000 in 1837, equivalent to £2,869,419 in 2023. During the economic crisis of 1837, he lost most of his wealth when the price of
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In August 1859, Wilson resigned these offices and his seat in parliament to sit as the financial member of the
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Influences of the corn laws, as affecting all classes of the community, and particularly the landed interests
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fell. By 1839, he had sold most of his property and avoided bankruptcy. However, in 1853 he founded the
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history. Due to the efforts of CP Bhatia the tombstone was restored by the Christian Burial Board.
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Influences of the Corn Laws, as affecting all classes of the community, and particularly the
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Fluctuations of currency, commerce, and manufactures : referable to the corn laws
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business-standard.com "In British times, the opium trade protected people from taxes"
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Bagehot, Walter. "Memoir of Right Hon. James Wilson". In Forrest Morgan (ed.).
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Despite his prominent public role, Wilson was buried unknown at a cemetery at
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in January 1832. They had six daughters, of whom Eliza, the eldest, married
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Devon
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founder James Wilson gets facelift ahead of 150th death anniversary"
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A portrait of James Wilson by Sir John Wilson Gordon, published in
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scholar from a Quaker family, he was destined to be a
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19th-century Scottish newspaper publishers (people)
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Index

James Wilson (UK politician)
The Right Honourable

Royal Scottish Academy
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Victoria
The Earl of Aberdeen
The Viscount Palmerston
George Alexander Hamilton
George Alexander Hamilton
Paymaster General
Vice-President of the Board of Trade
Victoria
The Viscount Palmerston
Lord Lovaine
Hon. William Cowper
Victoria
Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning
The Viscount Palmerston
Hawick
Calcutta
Whig
Liberal
Scottish
Liberal
The Economist
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China
Standard Bank
Standard Chartered
Sepoy Mutiny

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