[3] Born and trained as a carpenter in Victoria, he moved first to Perth and then to the Eastern Goldfields (in December 1899[4][5]), where he worked for Murdock McKay Hopkins.

[8] One of his best-known buildings is the Boulder town hall for which he submitted designs in 1907.

[9] In December 1908,[4] he moved back to Perth and practised from Forrest Chambers (at 62 St George's Terrace).

[3] On 17 December 1910, aged 44, he married May Livingstone in Perth,[3][10] and in 1917 they left Australia for England, where Wilson enlisted in the Army.

[3] Wilson died on 19 June 1950 at St Andrew's Hospital in Melbourne.