Guy Wilson

Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Greville Wilson, (19 May 1877 – 1 February 1943 ) was a British soldier, company director, and Liberal Party politician from Kingston upon Hull. His family owned Thomas Wilson Sons & Co., which was once the largest private shipowning concern in the world.

Family and military service Wilson was the second son of Charles Henry Wilson (later the first Baron Nunburnholme) and his wife Florence Jane Helen Wellesley. He was educated at Eton, and in February 1895 he was commissioned in the Militia as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment. He transferred to the Regular British Army in the 11th Hussars on 11 May 1898, and served in South Africa with this regiment during the Second Boer War, returned to the United Kingdom in August 1902, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in October 1902. He retired from the full-time army service in 1903, but joined the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry, being commissioned as a captain on 17 December 1904 and promoted to major on 20 December 1912. He later became lieutenant-colonel of the 1st battalion of the regiment on active service during World War I from 1915 to 1916. He was appointed Honorary Colonel of his former regiment, now the 26th (East Riding of York Yeomanry) Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Regiment, on 2 January 1932.

Wilson was married twice, firstly on 23 June 1904 to Lady Isabel Ines-Ker, daughter of the 7th Duke of Roxburghe. However, their father died the following year, and Charles Jr. succeeded to his peerage, thereby gaining a seat in the House of Lords and automatically vacating his seat in the Commons. At the resulting by-election in November 1907, Guy was elected to succeed him, with a narrow majority of 241 votes (1.5% of the total) over his Conservative Party opponent. which signified the endorsement of the Conservative-dominated Coalition Government led by David Lloyd George. However, Wilson repudiated the coupon,