Charles Wilsonn

Charles Edward Wilsonn (1752 – 14 February 1829) was an English stationer and bookbinder and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1814 to 1818.

His father was a printer and stationer of Birchin Lane and Lombard Street, London, and receiver of duties on windows.

He was baptised at St Mary's church, Stoke Newington, on 9 July 1752,[1] to which parish the family had moved after the destruction of their home in Exchange Alley by fire in 1748.

[3] In 1783 he was a Freeman of the Stationers Company, and he also joined the City of London Corporation as common councillor for the Langbourn ward, an office he retained until 1790.

He was in various business ventures in the City of London, and was listed as an East India Company stockholder in 1795.

[6] Wilsonn lived at Dome House at South Bersted, near Bognor, Sussex.