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Wilson, Keith Alexander Buchanan, 1899-1987

  • GB-2014-WSA-18389
  • Person
  • 1899-1987

Wilson, Keith Alexander Buchanan, son of Alexander J. Wilson, of Birkenhead, Cheshire; b. Jan. 3, 1899; adm. May 4, 1911 (H); left July 1913; adm. a solicitor June 1923; in practice at Worthing, Sussex; d. 3 Dec. 1987.

Wilson, John, 1921-1977

  • GB-2014-WSA-18383
  • Person
  • 1921-1977

Wilson, John, son of John Wilson, engineer, and Margaret, d. of Alexander Haig of The Gortons, Bute; b. 21 Apr. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (H); left July 1939; 2nd Lieut. KOSB Mar. 1941, transf. Indian Army and Political Service 1943 (Capt.); MBE for services in Waziristan June 1946; employed ICI, man. dir. ICI Belgium; OBE for services to British interests in Belgium 1 Jan 1971; m. 7 Jan. 1950 Anne Marie Elisabeth Jenny, d. of Roger Gay-Lussac of Paris; d. 14 Sep 1977.

Wilson, Hugh Cameron, 1876-1940

  • GB-2014-WSA-18379
  • Person
  • 1876-1940

Wilson, Hugh Cameron, brother of David Hastings Wilson (q.v.); b. Sept. 28, 1876; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (H); left Dec. 1892; Edinburgh Univ.; M.B., B.Ch. 1905; M.D. 1908; F.R.C.S. 1911; senior house physician, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh and later practised at Maidenhead; served in Great War I as a surgical specialist; Major R.A.M.C.; m.; d. Dec. 13, 1940.

Wilson, David Hastings, 1875-1944

  • GB-2014-WSA-18371
  • Person
  • 1875-1944

Wilson, David Hastings, son of Duncan Herbert Hastings Wilson, of London; b. May 22, 1875; adm. May 2, 1889 (H); left March 1893; in Accountant-Gen.'s Dept., Admiralty, Oct. 1918 -Jan. 1919; Administrative Officer, Labour Dept., Admiralty, Jan.- Nov. 1919; m.; d. Jan. 12, 1944.

Wilson, Colin Campbell Grant, 1905-1943

  • GB-2014-WSA-18370
  • Person
  • 1905-1943

Wilson, Colin Campbell Grant, son of Colin Campbell Wilson, architect, of Mitcham, Surrey, and Lily, d. of J. H. Curtis of Salisbury; b. 4 Feb. 1905; adm. Jan. 1920 (H); left Apr. 1921; a tea planter Upper Assam 1937; PO (training) RAFVR June 1941, res. July 1943.

Wilson, Angus Frank Johnstone (known at school as Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson), 1913-1991

  • GB-2014-WSA-18360
  • Person
  • 1913-1991

Wilson, Sir Angus Frank Johnstone (known at school as Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson), son of William Thomas Johnstone-Wilson and Maud Ellen Caney of Durban, S. Africa; b. 11 Aug. 1913; adm. May 1927 (H); left July 1932; Merton Coll. Oxf., matric. 1932, BA 1935; asst Keeper Dept of Printed Books British Museum 1937; Foreign Office (Bletchley) 1942-6; dep. Superin­tendent Brit. Museum Reading Room 1949-55; an author under the name of Angus Wilson; FRSL 1958; Prof. of English Literature Univ. of East Anglia 1966-78; chairman Arts Council literature panel 1966-70, Nat. Book League 1971-4; CBE 1968, CLit 1972; pres. Powys Soc. 1970-80, Dickens Fellowship 1974-5, Kipling Soc. 1981-7; visiting Prof. and hon. Doct. at many US and UK universities; Kt 1980; Pres. Roy. Soc. of Literature 1980-7; author of novels including Such Darling Dodos 1950, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes 1956, Middle Age of Mrs Eliot 1958, Old Men at the Zoo 1961, Late Call 1964, No Laughing Matter 1967, As If By Magic 1973; also wrote The World of Charles Dickens 1970, The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling 1977; d. 31 May 1991.

Willis, Guy Cooper, 1884-1957

  • GB-2014-WSA-18314
  • Person
  • 1884-1957

Willis, Guy Cooper, youngest son of Edward Cooper Willis, Q.C., of Blackheath, Kent, Bencher of the Inner Temple, by his second wife, Ellen Irene, second daughter of John Calver Brook, of Diss, Norfolk, solicitor; b. Nov. 5, 1884; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (H); Q.S. 1899; left Dec. 1902; Staff Capt. 180th Infantry Brigade; served in Great War I; M.C. Jan. 1, 1919; Trustee Officer, Office of the Treasury Solicitor; retired 1946; O.B.E. June 24, 1946; m. Dec. 4, 1919, Dorothy Marie, elder daughter of Alexander Blackie, of Edinburgh; d. Sept. 6, 1957.

Williamson, Harold, 1891-?

  • GB-2014-WSA-18289
  • Person
  • 1891-?

Williamson, Harold, son of George Edward Williamson, F.R.C.S., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by Mary Sarah, daughter of Thomas Robson Miller, of Streatham; b. Feb. 26, 1891; adm. from Oundle School Jan. 18, 1906 (H); left July 1909; Durham Univ.; M.B. and B. S. 1919; M.D. 1925; Charing Cross Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1915; F.R.C.S. (Edin.) 1920; served in Great War I; Surgeon R.N. July 17, 1915; Capt. I.M.S. June 17, 1920; Major Dec. 17, 1928; O.B.E. June 3, 1927; Lieut.-Col. Dec. 17, 1936; Surgeon to the Viceroy of India; retired 1947; resident in Kenya; m. Nov. 23, 1921, Margaret, daughter of Charles Gale Berrill, of Pytchley Manor, Northants.

Williams, Reginald, 1879-?

  • GB-2014-WSA-18253
  • Person
  • 1879-?

Williams, Reginald, son of George Williams, of London; b. March 22, 1879; adm. April 28, 1892 (H); left July 1896.

Williams, Lambert Frederick, 1883-?

  • GB-2014-WSA-18239
  • Person
  • 1883-?

Williams, Lambert Frederick, son of John Frederick Williams, of St. Johns Wood; b. March 7, 1883; adm. April 23, 1896 (H); left April 1900; in business, also an art-critic and writer; author of The Heart of the Furnace (1938), From the Ends of the Earth (1938); was at one time living at Cape Town; m. 1909, Doris Ellen, daughter of William Dufair Clark, merchant of Port Elizabeth, S. Africa.

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