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'''Sir Guy Douglas Arthur Fleetwood Wilson''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCIE|KCB|KCMG|PC}} (also '''Fleetwood-Wilson'''; 21 October 1850 – 24 December 1940) was a British [[public servant]] who served in [[British India]] for more than half a century.<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Guy Fleetwood-Wilson – Eminent Public Servant|work=[[The Times]] |date=28 December 1940 |page= 7}}</ref>

Fleetwood Wilson was born and raised in [[Florence]], Italy, where he was known as '''Guido''', a name that stuck with him throughout his life.<ref name="memoir">{{cite news |title=Memoirs of an Official. Sir G. F. Wilson's Letters in Italy and Egypt. |work=[[The Times]] |date= 15 June 1922|page=16 }}</ref> He was the son of Capt. Thomas Hugh Fleetwood Wilson of the [[8th Hussars]], who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Barbados, and Harriet Horatia Walker, daughter of Capt. Charles Montagu Walker of the Royal Naval.<ref name="burkewwii">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |editor-link=Bernard Burke |edition= 97th |year=1939 |pages=2948–2949 |ref=Burke }}</ref>

He was knighted in 1902, sworn in as a [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Counsellor]] in 1914, and was appointed a Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Bath]] in 1905, Knight Commander of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] 1908, and a Knight Grand Commander of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] in 1911.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Indian Biographical Dictionary|editor=C. Hayavando Rao|publisher=Pillar & Co.|location=Madras|year=1915|pages=465|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Indian_Biographical_Dictionary_%281915%29/Wilson,_Sir_Guy_Douglas_Arthur_Fleetwood}}</ref>

In 1922, he published a memoir of his correspondence, ''Letters to Somebody: A Retrospect''.<ref name="memoir"/>

He was a devoted reader of ''The Times'', and wrote to the newspaper in 1932:

{{Pull quote|text=You cannot have many readers who have read ''The Times'' since 1855. I was born and passed my childhood in Florence and had to learn English. In that year, on my fifth birthday, my father called me into his study and told me that he would allow me to read one or two paragraphs of ''The Times'' to him. I felt highly honoured and when he died I continued the practice with my mother. ''The Times'' became a sort of family Bible with me. Since then, and up to now, I have rarely missed my daily reading of ''The Times''. and I have made a practice of reading the back numbers which I may have been obliged to neglect for a time. I received and read ''The Times'' every day when I was in Egypt with the Financial mission, in 1873. I did the same when I was in South Africa with Kitchener during the Boer War, and in India ''The Times'' was stitched and ironed as was the practice in most clubs at that time. The six numbers came out to me regularly once a week and I never missed one; always reading them from the earliest number onwards. Since then I have never missed reading ''The Times'' daily.|author=Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson|source= January 1932<ref name="times"/>}}

He died in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], aged 90.<ref name="times"/>

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==External links==
{{wikisource|The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Wilson, Sir Guy Douglas Arthur Fleetwood}}
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