Wilson Dobie Wilson

Wilson Dobie Wilson FRSE FSA (Scot) (30 November 1803 – 1 June 1838) was a nineteenth-century Scottish writer, editor and traveller. He was a member of the Maitland Club council, and a member of the Honourable Faculty of Advocates though he did not practise.

He lived in Gleverebach.

Family Wilson was christened Wilson Dobie - Wilson for his mother's surname, seventh child of James Dobie, and Janet Wilson, eldest daughter of William Wilson. His older brother, James Dobie FSA (Scot) (d. 1819), writer and bank agent, married Margaret Shedden.

Wilson took the additional surname Wilson from "his maternal uncle, Robert Wilson, M.D., of Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, London, for many years Resident Surgeon in the Presidency of Bengal and at Oude," when he died and Wilson "succeeded to his fortune, by destination and royal sign manual. Four are described as armorial and one as pictorial armorial, the first and last by William Home Lizars. The bearings are described as Wilson quartering Dobie. The Society of Antiquaries of London lists a number of bookplates in the Charles Hall Crouch collection of bookplates.