Rev John Wilson FRSE FEIS (1847–1896) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist.
He then studied mathematics and natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MA around 1866.
He then trained as a Free Church minister at New College, Edinburgh, but instead of joining the ministry, returned to his father's school to teach.
[1] Apart from teaching at the school, where he replaced his father as Rector, he taught mathematics in nearby Stirling as an evening course.
His proposers were Philip Kelland, James Sime, Thomas Graham Balfour and Peter Guthrie Tait.