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WILSON, Richard I (?1755-1815), of Datchworth, Herts. and Owna Lodge, co. Tyrone.
Family and Education
b. ?1755.Mar. lic. gives his age in March 1779 as 23. m. 23 Mar. 1779, Hon. Anne Townshend, da. of Hon. Charles Townshend (by w. Caroline, s.j. Baroness of Greenwich), 3s. 2da.
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Main residences: Datchworth, Herts.; Owna Lodge, co. Tyrone, [I].
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Commons 1790-1820
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WILSON, Richard I (?1755-1815)
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WILSON, Richard II (1759-1834), of 47 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx. and Bildeston, Suff.
Family and Education
bap. 5 Oct. 1759, 12th child of George Wilson of Hepscott, Northumb. by Elizabeth, da. of John Nowell of Naworth, Cumb., land agent of Earl of Carlisle. educ. articled to solicitor in Hexham, Northumb. m. 20 Feb. 1784, at Margate, Hannah Harwood, 1s. 2da. suc. bro. John to Northumb. property 1820.
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Adm. attorney KB 5 May 1781, c.p. 30 May 1788; principal sec. to Ld. Chancellors Eldon and Erskine 1801 – 07; commr. of bankrupts 1802 – 31; dep. recorder, Launceston 1809 – 18; cursitor in Chancery 1807 – d.; dir. Rock Life Assurance 1813.
Capt. Bloomsbury vols. 18601.
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Main residences: 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Mdx.; Bildeston, Suff.
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Commons 1790-1820
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WILSON, Richard II (1759-1834)
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WILSON, Sir Robert Thomas (1777-1849), of Charles Street, Berkeley Square, Mdx.
Family and Education
b. 17 Aug. 1777, 3rd s. of Benjamin Wilson, serjeant painter to the King, of Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury by Jane née Hetherington. educ. Westminster 1786-7; Winchester 1787-8; by a clergyman, Tottenham Court Road. m. 8 July 1797, at Gretna Green, and again 10 Mar. 1798, Jemima, da. of Col. William Belford of Harpledown, Kent, 7s. 6da. Kt. order of Maria Theresa of Austria, sanctioned by George III 2 June 1801.
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Cornet, 15 Drag. 1794, lt. 1794, capt. 1796; a.d.c. to Gen. St. John in Ireland 1798; maj. Hompesch’s mounted riflemen 1800, lt.-col. 1802, half-pay 1802; inspector, yeoman cav. Som., Devon and Cornw. 1802 – 04; lt.-col. 19 Drag. 1804, 20 Drag. 1805; brevet col. and a.d.c. to the King 1810; lt.-col. 22 Drag. 1812, maj.-gen. 1813, dismissed 1821, restored as lt.-gen. 1830, with effect from 1825; col. 15 Drag. 1835; gen. 1841.
Gov. and c.-in-c. Gibraltar 1842 – 49.
Main residence: Charles Street, Berkeley Square, Mdx.
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Commons 1790-1820
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WILSON, Sir Robert Thomas (1777-1849)
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Oxford 1644
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WILSON, Thomas I (1770-1827), of Wotton Park, Ellaston, Staffs.
Family and Education
b. 22 Feb. 1770, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Thomas Patten of Bank Hall, Warrington, Lancs. by Dorothea, da. of Peter Bold of Bold Hall, Prescot, Lancs., bro. of Peter Patten. m. 29 Mar. 1800, Elizabeth, da. of Nathan Hyde of Ardwick, Lancs., 2s. 1da. Took name of Wilson 1800 as reversionary heir under will of cos. Rev. Thomas Wilson, DD, preb. of Westminster (d.1784) to Woodchurch, Wirral, Cheshire; additional name of Patten 1823 on heir’s coming of age.
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Lt.-col. commdt. Loyal Preston vols. 1798 – 99, 4 R. Lancs. militia 1798.
Main residence: Wotton Park, Ellaston, Staffs.
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WILSON, Thomas I (1770-1827)
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