WILSON, JAMES ARTHUR, son of James Wilson, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, surgeon and teacher of anatomy, and ---, dau. of John Clarke, Wellingborough, Northants, surgeon; b. 1795; in school list 1801; KS 1808; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1812, matr. 9 May 1812, Westminster Student 1812-7, Faculty Student 1817-24; 1st cl. Classics and 1st cl. Mathematics 1815; BA 1815; MA 1818; MB 1819; MD 1823; Radcliffe Travelling Fellow 1821; practised medicine initially in Paris, but returned to England in 1829; FRCP 28 Mar 1825, Censor 1828, 1851, Harveian Orator 1850; Physician to St. George’s Hospital 1829-57, Consulting Physician from 1857; author, On Spasm, Languor, Palsy, and other Disorders termed Nervous, of the Muscular System, 1843; m. 1st, 29 Apr 1824 Jessie Janet Shedden, dau. of James Scrimgeour; m. 2nd, 22 Jun 1871 Eleanor, second dau. of Hon. and Rev. Littleton Powys, Rector of Titchmarsh, Northants; d. 29 Dec 1882. DNB.