Background
Born at Old Charlton, Kent, on 27 March 1863, was only son of Charles Wilson, army tutor, by his wife Charlotte Woodthorpe Childs.
Born at Old Charlton, Kent, on 27 March 1863, was only son of Charles Wilson, army tutor, by his wife Charlotte Woodthorpe Childs.
He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1887, having been placed in the first class in mathematical moderations in 1883 and in the final classical school in 1886.
Educated at the City of London School, where he gained the Carpenter scholarship on leaving, he was elected to a scholarship at Wadham College, Oxford, in 1881. On leaving Oxford he entered the Indian Educational Service in Bengal, being successively professor at Dacca and at the Presidency College, Calcutta, principal of the Bankipur College, Patna, and inspector of schools. In 1900 Wilson was appointed officer in charge of the records of the government of India, an appointment which carried with it that of assistant secretary in the home department.
Soon afterwards his health broke down.
He was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Literature at Oxford in 1902. Dying unmarried at Clapham on 24 July 1904, he was buried in Streatham cemetery.