About Sir John Wilson, 1st Baronet
Lived 1844 – 1918 (aged 73–74). Sir John Wilson, 1st Baronet was a British politician.
Sir John Wilson, 1st Baronet (26 June 1844 – 28 July 1918) was a businessman and Liberal Unionist politician in Scotland. He was Chairman of the Wilsons and Clyde Coal Company, and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Falkirk Burghs from 1895 to 1906.
He was made a baronet on 27 July 1906, of Airdrie in New Monkland in the County of Lanark.
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British politician (1844–1918)
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Sir John Wilson, 1st Baronet was born in 1844.
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Sir John Wilson, 1st Baronet died on 28 July 1918.
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