John Wilson, Lord Ashmore (1857 – 8 July 1932) was a Scottish lawyer, a unionist parliamentary candidate, a sheriff principal and a judge.
[1] After graduating from university, Wilson initially joined his father's practice in Falkirk.
At the 1895 general election he contested the Leith Burghs against the Liberal Ronald Munro Ferguson (later Lord Norvar).
[8] His judgments included a 1924 case of a couple who had been married at Gretna by the village blacksmith, in his smithy.
[12] In 1884 he married Lillias Hartley from Ruthwell in Dumfriesshire, and together they had one daughter and two sons, one of whom was killed in World War I.