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WILSON, SIR BELFORD HINTON, son of Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (qv); b. 1804; adm. 23 Sep 1814; left Christmas 1818; served in Colombian Army; ADC to Gen. Bolivar 1823-30; HM Consul-General, Peru 18 Apr 1832; Chargé d’Affaires, Bolivia 18 Nov 1837-42, Venezuela 30 Nov 1842-52; KCB 23 Dec 1852; m. 1st, 27 Aug 1842 Louisa, only child of Gen. Bayly Wallis; m. 2nd, 10 Oct 1849 Catherine, youngest dau. of Rev. Herbert Randolph, Rector of Letcombe Bassett, Berks.; d. 27 Dec 1858.

WILSON, ARTHUR CHARLES, eldest son of James Arthur Wilson (qv); b. 20 mar 1826; adm. 18 Sep 1837 (Benthall's); left May 1839; went to King’s Coll. London; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 May 1844, Canoneer Student 1845-54; BA 1848; MA 1851; BD 1866; ordained deacon 1849, priest 1850 (both Oxford); Fellow, Lancing Coll. 1850-69; Second Master, Lancing Coll. 1851-60 [check date]; Master, Chigwell GS, Essex 1868-70; Head Master, Basingstoke GS, Hampshire 1870-3; Rector of Dunston, Lincs., 1873-6; Vicar of Nocton, Lincs., from 7 Jul 1876; m. 27 Jun 1854 Mary Henrietta, third dau. of Sir Robert Alexander Chermside MD KCH FRCP; d. 30 Oct 1880.

WILSON, ARCHDALE, son of John Wilson, Kingsthorpe, Leics., and King’s Lynn, Norfolk, Mayor of Lynn, and Anne, dau. of Thomas Archdale, Stanhope, Norfolk; b.; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1742 (Hawkins'); left 1747; Clare Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 18 Jun 1747, matr. 1747; adm. Middle Temple 25 Feb 1744/5 and Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jan 1752; of King’s Lynn, Norfolk; drowned at sea in loss of HMS Prince George 11 Apr 1758, on which he was travelling as a passenger to Italy.

WILSON, ANTHONY, only son of Richard Wilson, Louth, Ireland, and his second wife Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Anthony Walsh, Ardagh, co. Armagh, Ireland; nephew of Very Rev. William Pratt, Dean of Cloyne; b. 10 May 1748; adm.; KS 1761; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1765, matr. 7 Jun 1765, aged 18, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1765; BA 1769; adm. Middle Temple 6 Apr 1768; d. unm. at Dublin, Ireland 1771.

WILSON, ANTHONY GODFREY, son of Anthony Wilson, Chepstow Villas, Bayswater, manager, Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., and Elizabeth A. --- (1881 Census); b. 19 Dec 1861; adm. 25 Sep 1873 (G); left Dec 1876; adm. solicitor Jun 1885; practised at Wisbech, Cambs., to 1890. [Not in Law List 1900].

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.

WILSON, ---; b.; in school lists 1764, 1765.

WILSON, ---; b.; in school list 1745.

WILSON, ---; b.; in school lists Feb 1727/8, 1729.

WILSON, ---; b.; in under school lists 1717, 1719.