Charles Richard Wilton (25 May 1855 – 8 March 1927) was a journalist in the State of South Australia, a longtime literary editor of The Advertiser and authored, under the pen name of "Autolycus", a long-running weekly column in The Courier of Mount Barker.
[3] He had a literary bent, and some years previously had started writing for the Press, and had articles published in the Melbourne Spectator and Daily Telegraph.
It seems that he had affinity for printers' ink, for by 1877 he had left architecture to join J. C. F. Johnson, Dan Magill, and W. J. Kennedy, in producing the Adelaide Punch.
For a time he replaced George Ash as editor of the Narracoorte Herald, then for eight years edited the Mount Barker Courier.
Despite his change of career, he retained an interest in architecture and designed a number of buildings in the Mount Barker region, including:[4] He married Annie Isabel Gladstones ( – 5 June 1927) on 3 July 1883.