Sir Guy Douglas Arthur Fleetwood Wilson Template:Postnominals (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.[1]
Fleetwood Wilson was born and raised in Florence, Italy, where he was known as Guido, a name that stuck with him throughout his life.[2] 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.[3]
He was knighted in 1902, sworn in as a 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.[4]
In 1922, he published a memoir of his correspondence, Letters to Somebody: A Retrospect.[2]
He was a devoted reader of The Times, and wrote to the newspaper in 1932:
He died in Stratford-upon-Avon, aged 90.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 [{{{url}}} Obituary: Sir Guy Fleetwood-Wilson – Eminent Public Servant]. The Times(28 December 1940).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 [{{{url}}} Memoirs of an Official. Sir G. F. Wilson's Letters in Italy and Egypt.]. The Times(15 June 1922).
- ↑ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Burke's Peerage & Gentry(1939)
- ↑ The Indian Biographical Dictionary{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Pillar & Co.(1915)