Charles Wilson (political scientist)

Sir Charles Haynes Wilson (16 May 1909 – 1 November 2002) was a Scottish political scientist and university administrator.

The Charles Wilson Building at the University of Leicester was designed by Sir Denys Lasdun in the brutalist style, and completed in 1963.

[11] The building was acquired by the university in 2004 when work began to convert it into a conference and lecture facility.

The building opened in 2005 containing a raked auditorium seating three hundred and an eighty-person seminar room with a sliding partition.

The design retains a number of the building's period features, such as stained glass windows, arched ceiling and polished granite columns, while introducing contemporary furnishings and comprehensive audio-visual equipment, as well as full disabled access.