(Hons) (Ceylon), PhD (LSE) and DSc (Economics) (London).

[1] Wilson spent a short time as an editorial writer for the Ceylon Daily News.

[6] After Peradeniya Wilson taught political science at the Fredericton campus of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) between 1970 and 1994.

[3] Whilst teaching at Peradeniya and UNB Wilson took a number of sabbaticals.

[5] Wilson died in his sleep of heart failure at his home in Toronto on 31 May 2000.