 Cook Wilson was elected fellow of Oriel College in 1873 and he succeeded Thomas Fowler as Wykeham Professor of Logic, New College in 1889. Bernard Bosanquet, Thomas Case, and John Venn had been among his rivals. He finally moved to New College in 1901, where he remained until his death from pernicious anemia on 11 August 1915. His wife Charlotte, whom he had met in Germany, predeceased him; they had a son (Joseph 1916b, 557). Cook Wilson lived the uneventful life of an Oxford don. Among his awards, he became Fellow of the British Academy in 1907. A Liberal in his convictions (SI, xxix), he did not get involved in politics, nor did he take a prominent part in the affairs of his university. (He is, for example, seldom mentioned in (Engel 1983).) His most cherished extra-curricular activity appears to have been the development of tactics for military bicycle units.