Career
Wilson commenced studying at great length in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1837. Within a year, he was giving a series of lectures, which developed an audience. In 1840, he published Our Israelitish Origin, a book of his lectures, in which he claimed that the peoples of Israel had made their way across the continent of Europe to the British Isles.
He brought evidence to bear from Ptolemy and works by Diodorus, supporting the earlier history of the Israelites.
He studied the works of Rawlinson, Herodotus, and Josephus, and quoted extensively from Sharon Turner. His lectures attracted the attention of, among others, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland and one of the first Pyramidologists.
lieutenant was in Wilson"s house in Street Pancras, London, that the Anglo-Israel Association was founded in 1874. On the death of Wilson"s daughter in 1904, his manuscripts passed into the possession of Review
A. B. Grimaldi.
