John Wilson, QC (February 5, 1807 – June 3, 1869) was an Ontario lawyer, judge and political figure.
[1][2] He was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1807 and settled in Perth, Upper Canada with his family around 1823.
The duel was fought on June 13, 1833, over comments that Lyon, another law student, had made against the character of a Miss Elizabeth Hughes (who Wilson later married).
He helped organize local resistance against the Upper Canada Rebellion and was a Captain in the London Home Guard in 1838.
He was elected to the Legislative Council for St. Clair division in 1863 but was named judge in the Court of Common Pleas a few months later.