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It was during this period that the number-theoretic result now bearing his name — Wilson's theorem — came to be associated with him, a proposition concerning prime numbers that entered the broader mathematical record under his authorship.\n\nHis career did not remain confined to academic mathematics. Wilson served as both a politician and a jurist, eventually holding the position of judge — a trajectory that took him from the theoretical concerns of pure mathematics into the practical administration of law. As a citizen of the Kingdom of Great Britain, he operated within institutions that were themselves in a period of considerable change, and his movement across such distinct professional domains reflects the range of roles available to educated men of his era and standing. 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