Charles Robert Wilson (1863–1904) was an English academic of the Indian Education Service, known as a historian of British India.
Born at Old Charlton, Kent, on 27 March 1863, was only son of Charles Wilson, army tutor, by his wife Charlotte Woodthorpe Childs.
On leaving Oxford he entered the Indian Educational Service in Bengal, being successively professor at Dacca and at the Presidency College, Calcutta, principal of the Bankipur College, Patna, and inspector of schools.
Dying unmarried at Clapham on 24 July 1904, he was buried in Streatham cemetery.
His published works were: Wilson also wrote articles in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, mainly on the Black Hole of Calcutta.