Background
WILSON, Guy Douglas Arthur Fleetwood was born on October 21, 1851 in Florence. Son of Captain Fleetwood Wilson, 8th Hussars, Lieutenant - Governor of Barbados, formerly of Knowle Hall, Warwickshire (d.
WILSON, Guy Douglas Arthur Fleetwood was born on October 21, 1851 in Florence. Son of Captain Fleetwood Wilson, 8th Hussars, Lieutenant - Governor of Barbados, formerly of Knowle Hall, Warwickshire (d.
Private tutors abroad. Clerk in the Paymaster-General’s Office, 1870. Proceeded to Egypt as private secretary to Sir C. Rivers Wilson, 1876.
Examiner and Assessor of Income Tax, 1883. Transferred to War Office, 1883. Resident Clerk, 1885-1886.
Secretary to Special Committee on Army Reorganisation, 1887. Commissioner of Income Duty, 1898. Commissioner under the Wimbledon Commons Act, 1901.
Member of Pensions Commutation Board, 1903. Commissioner of Duke of York Military School, 1907. Examiner in Italian under the Director-General of Military Education and to Civil Service Commission.
Assistant private secretary to M. of Hartington, 1883-1885. Assistant private secretary to Right Honourable W. H. Smith, 86. Private secretary to Right Honourable Herbert Gladstone, 1886.
Assistant private secretary to Right Honourable W. H. Smith, 1886. And to Mr. Stanhope, 1887. Principal private secretary to Mr.
Stanhope, 1888-1892. To Mr. CampbellBannerman, 1892-1893. Director-General of the Royal Army Clothing Department, 1893.
Financial Adviser to Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, 1901 (medal). Assistant Under Secretary of State for War, 1898, and DirectorGen. of Army Finance since 1904. Justice of the Peace London. Cartulary-register 1905; Justice of the Peace; Finance Member of the Council of India since 1908.
Clubs: Travellers’, Marlborough, Turf.