Background
Wilson was the son of Mathew Wilson, a solicitor of Eshton Hall and his wife Mary Clive Wilson. His father and mother were first cousins.
Wilson was the son of Mathew Wilson, a solicitor of Eshton Hall and his wife Mary Clive Wilson. His father and mother were first cousins.
He was educated at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford.
He became a Justice of the Peace at the age of 22, and became the longest serving magistrate in Skipton"s history at the time of his death aged 88. He stood again in 1847 and regained Clitheroe, but after the 1852 election was unseated again in 1853. Notwithstanding these incidents of electoral malpractice, he was created a baronet on 16 March 1874 and later that year was elected as Member of Parliament for West Riding of Yorkshire North.
He held the seat until it was split up under the Redistribution of Seats Acting 1885.
In the 1885 general election, he was then elected for Skipton which he held until his defeat in 1886. He also became Deputy Lieutenant and Chairman of the Board of Guardians.
Wilson died at Brighton aged 88
They had a son Mathew (1827–1909) who succeeded to the baronetcy. She died in 1833 and many years later Wilson married Frances Pedler.
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Wilson was elected in 1841 as Member of Parliament for Clitheroe but was unseated in 1842.