Charles Wilson

Family and early life Wilson was born at Ashgrove in Queensland. He attended Marist College Ashgrove initially (which was evacuated to Eagle Heights at Mt. Tamborine in the wartime years between 1942 and 1944) and then Brisbane Grammar School where he played schoolboy rugby. and although he was the incumbent Queensland state captain he was not selected for the 1957–58 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and France.

In 1958 with Wilson as captain, Queensland beat New South Wales in the interstate series for only the second time since the war and Wilson was rewarded with the national captaincy of the 1958 Wallabies to tour New Zealand. Wilson captained Australia in 11 of 13 games played including three Tests. Although Australia won the second Test the final tour record had the Wallabies winning only six games of thirteen games and drawing one.

Wilson made a further state appearance against the visiting British & Irish Lions in 1959 but this would be his last representative game in Australia. All told he played for Australia twelve times, four of which were Tests and captained the side in eleven of those appearances.

In the early 1960s Wilson undertook post-graduate studies in England and Scotland and played with the Edinburgh Wanderers. In 1963 & '64 he was selected in a London Counties side who played against the visiting All Blacks.

Team manager At the end of his career Wilson captain-coached a side at Wests Brisbane,