Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Wilson, Richard Albert
Parallel form(s) of name
- R. A. Wilson
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Description area
Dates of existence
1874-1949
History
Richard Albert Wilson was born on March 18, 1874. He grew up in rural Ontario. He achieved his B. A. (1901), M.A. (1902), Teaching Certificate (1903), and PhD (1906) all from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. While earning his degrees he was teaching English in secondary schools. In 1912 he became Principal of the Regina Normal School and then a professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Saskatchewan in 1915. In 1937 Wilson collated his lecture notes and published a book entitled "The Birth of Language: Its Place in World Evolution and Its Structure in Relation to Space and Time" He retired from the University in 1940. Richard Wilson died in Vancouver, British Columbia on January 2, 1949.