Adam Wilson

Sir Adam Wilson Q.C. ( Born September 22, 1814 Edinburgh, † December 28, 1891 in Toronto ) was a Canadian judge, politician and 15th mayor of Toronto.

Born in Scotland, emigrated in 1830 from Wilson in the Upper Canadian Halton County to work with his uncle, George Chalmers, who was the owner of a mill and a store. In 1834 he moved to Toronto, where he studied law under Robert Baldwin Sullivan. He received his legal approval in 1839 and became Queen's Counsel in 1850. Wilson was elected to the Toronto City Council in 1855 and served from January 1859 to January 1861 - the first directly elected by the citizens mayor - two terms. In 1856 he was appointed to the Commission, which worked on the statutes of the province of Canada. In a by-election in 1860, he obtained a seat in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. In 1863 he retired from politics and worked as a lawyer and consultant on. In 1878 he was Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1887 he resigned from this office and was knighted.