Guy Wilson (politician)
Lieutenant-Colonel The Hon. Guy Greville Wilson CMG DSO MP (19 May 1877 – 1 February 1943)[1] was a British soldier, company director, and Liberal Party politician from Kingston upon Hull. His family owned Thomas Wilson Sons & Co., which was once the largest private shipowning concern in the world.[2]
Family and military service
Wilson was the second son of Charles Henry Wilson (later the first Baron Nunburnholme) and his wife Florence Jane Helen Wellesley.[3] He was educated at Eton, and in February 1895 he was commissioned in the British Army as a second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment.[4] He served in South Africa as a Lieutenant with the 11th Hussars during the Second Boer War,[3] where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in October 1902.[5] He retired from the full-time army service in 1903, but later became Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st battalion of the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry and served in the army during World War I from 1915 to 1916.[3]
Wilson was married twice, firstly on 23 June 1904[6] to Lady Isabel Ines-Ker (1879–1905), daughter of the 7th Duke of Roxburghe.[3] She died in childbirth on 12 October 1905[6] (the year after their marriage). He married again in May 1911, to Avery Fowell Buxton (born 1889),[7] daughter of Lt.-Col. Geoffrey Fowell Buxton (1852–1929),[8] of Dunston Hall in Norfolk, a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk[8] and a Director of Barclays Bank.
Political career
His father Charles had been a Member of Parliament (MP) for over 30 years,[2] and when he retired from the House of Commons in 1906 before being awarded a peerage, Charles's older son Charles H. W. Wilson was elected at the 1906 general election to succeed him as MP for Hull West.[9] However, their father died the following year, and Charles Jr succeeded to his peerage, thereby gaining a seat in the House of Lords and automatically vacating his seat in the Commons. At the resulting by-election in November 1907, Guy was elected to succeed him,[1][10] with a narrow majority of 241 votes (1.5% of the total) over his Conservative Party opponent.[9]
He was re-elected at both the January 1910 and December 1910 elections and held the seat until the constituency was abolished at the 1918.[9] He then stood in the new North Western division of Hull, where he was one of 159 Liberal candidates to receive the "coalition coupon",[11] which signified the endorsement of the Conservative-dominated Coalition Government led by David Lloyd George. However, Wilson repudiated the coupon,[9] and was overwhelmingly defeated by the Conservative Party candidate Lambert Ward; Wilson took only 21.0% of the votes.[11]
After his defeat in 1918, Wilson did not stand for Parliament again.[11]
He was later made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG).[12]
References
- ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 4)
- ^ a b L. P. Sidney, "Wilson, Charles Henry, first Baron Nunburnholme (1833–1907)", rev. Arthur G. Credland, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006. Accessed 22 July 2010
- ^ a b c d Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1916. p. 172. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- ^ "No. 26600". The London Gazette. 19 February 1895.
- ^ "No. 27490". The London Gazette. 31 October 1902.
- ^ a b Dewar, Peter Beauclerk (2001). Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain. p. 770.
- ^ Lundy, Darryl. "Avery Buxton". Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- ^ a b Lundy, Darryl. "Lt.-Col. Geoffrey Fowell Buxton". Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- ^ a b c d Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 130. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
- ^ "No. 28085". The London Gazette. 3 December 1907.
- ^ a b c Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 157. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ^ "No. 33786". The London Gazette. 1 January 1932.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Guy Wilson
- Use dmy dates from April 2012
- 1877 births
- 1943 deaths
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- Liberal Party (UK) MPs
- UK MPs 1906–10
- UK MPs 1910
- UK MPs 1910–18
- People educated at Eton College
- 11th Hussars officers
- British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
- Military personnel from Kingston upon Hull
- Deputy Lieutenants of the East Riding of Yorkshire
- British businesspeople in shipping
- Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Politicians from Kingston upon Hull
- Businesspeople from Kingston upon Hull