Walter Willson

Sir Walter Stuart James Willson (16 November 1876 – 16 April 1952) was an Dublin-born business man and banker in British India who became a member of the Legislative Assembly of India.

He retired to England, but maintained close links with India until his death in 1952.

Life Willson was the eldest surviving son of Albert Willson (1843–1922), of Waldegrave Park, Twickenham, by his marriage to Mary Elizabeth (1852- 1919), a daughter of William Latimer CE, of Drogheda, Ireland. He was educated at St Paul's School.

In 1921, Willson was a director of Turner Morrison, & Co., Ltd. and a member of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation. In 1924, he was appointed to the Legislative Assembly of India, and served until 1928.

In 1928, he presented a portrait by Tilly Kettle of Elijah Impey, First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Fort William, to the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta.

He was later a director of the Imperial Bank of India.

Willson had houses at 2, Hastings Park Road, Alipore, Calcutta, Bengal, and Kenward, Tonbridge, Kent, and was a member of the Oriental Club, the Ranelagh Club, the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, and the Royal Calcutta Turf Club. In 1943, their daughter Rachel Mary married Mervyn Christopher Thursby-Pelham, a young Welsh Guards officer who was later a brigadier. They had a son and a daughter.

Willson died on 16 April 1952 at a nursing home in Tonbridge, leaving an estate valued for probate at £140,035.