Background
Wilson, Arthur Stanley was born on July 30, 1868. Son of Arthur Wilson of Tranby Croft.
Wilson, Arthur Stanley was born on July 30, 1868. Son of Arthur Wilson of Tranby Croft.
He was educated at Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
He was the son the Hull-based shipowner and prominent local Liberal Arthur Wilson, who was best known nationally for hosting the party at his Tranby Croft home which led to the royal baccarat scandal. He held the seat until his defeat at the 1922 general election by the Liberal candidate William Bowdler, after which he did not stand again. Wilson was not a frequent participant in Parliamentary debates, but Hansard records his first contribution in House of Commons debates as being a question in December 1900 asking the government "to provide for the safety of the public by framing regulations to ensure that all drivers of motor cars shall submit to a test and hold a certificate as competent drivers".
Driving licenses were not introduced in the United Kingdom until the 1930s.
He was a Captain in the Territorial Force Reserve Yeomanry. During the First World War, he was captured and became a prisoner of war while acting as a Foreign Service Messenger.
He had been conveying letters from the Eastern Mediterranean to London when the neutral Greek steamer, Spetzia, on which he was travelling from Piraeus to Messina in Italy, was intercepted by an Austrian submarine. He was released in 1917.
Conservative.
27th United Kingdom Parliament. 28th United Kingdom Parliament. 29th United Kingdom Parliament.
30th United Kingdom Parliament.
31st United Kingdom Parliament]
At the 1900 general election, Wilson was elected as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Holderness.
Spouse 1892, Alice Cecil Agnes, daughter of late Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet, and sis. of 10tli Baronet.