Darwinism and argued that it was compatible with a higher view of Christianity; the lectures were published by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, which had a few years earlier strongly opposed Darwinian ideas. In 1921, he served for one year as president of The Mathematical Association of the UK. In 1925 he wrote an essay entitled "The Religious Effect of the Idea of Evolution". He wrote a number of books, including Life after Death "with replies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" in 1920. In addition to spiritual works, he co-wrote an astronomy book on double stars (mentioned above) and mathematical books on geometry and conic sections. He contributed the article "On two fragments of geometrical treatises found in Worcester Cathedral" to the Mathematical Gazette (March 1911, p. 19). Family In 1868 he married his first wife, Annie Elizabeth Moore. Their first child was the leading civil servant Mona Wilson. His first wife died after giving birth to their fourth child in 1878. She was a cousin once removed of Arthur William Moore, a proponent of the Manx language. In 1883 he married his second wife, Georgina Mary Talbot. Their sons included Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson, who became a British colonial administrator in Baghdad and was killed in action in World War II; 2nd Lt. Hugh Stanley Wilson (1885–1915), who died in World War I and is buried in the military cemetery at Hébuterne, Pas de Calais; and the tenor Sir Steuart Wilson. From his notes, Arnold and Steuart published the posthumous James M. Wilson: An Autobiography (London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1932) References Clifton College Register External links One-paragraph biography Mention of an obituary in 1932 QJ 88 (Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of the UK), not online 1836 births 1931 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 19th-century British astronomers Archdeacons of Manchester Headmasters of Clifton College 20th-century English Anglican priests Senior Wranglers People educated at King William's College Manx people