Douglas Wilson

Douglas John Wilson (22 June 190330 November 1980) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the mid-20th century.

Born into an ecclesiastical family – his father was J. K. Wilson, sometime canon, and Vicar of Bromley – he was educated at Haileybury and Queens' College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1928 he was successively a curate at Dartford, Vicar of Kingswinford and Archdeacon of Central America before his elevation to the episcopate as an assistant bishop of British Honduras (1938–1944). He returned to England and was an assistant bishop of Southwell, 1944–1945. His widow, Mary, died in 2009.