Charles Rivers Wilson

He was Royal Commissioner for the Paris Exhibition of 1878, having been already appointed Comptroller General of Office for Reduction of National Debt in 1874.

Whilst holding this position, Wilson visited Egypt in 1876 and he was appointed a government director of the Suez Canal Company.

On retiring from his post as Comptroller General of the National Debt Office in 1894, he became in 1895 president of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada.

He appointed Charles Melville Hays as general manager, who undertook a major reorganisation of the railway.

He is buried with his second wife, Violet, in Kensal Green Cemetery, opposite the grave of Wilkie Collins.