Claude Wilton (12 February 1919 – 24 September 2008)[1] was a politician, solicitor and civil rights campaigner from Northern Ireland.
After qualifying as a solicitor, he operated his own practice at Waterloo Place and, later, in Great James' Street in Derry.
[2] He was elected as an officer of the Derry Citizens' Action Committee (DCAC)[3] in late 1968 and called for Protestants in Derry to "stand up and be counted" in regard to the early campaign for civil rights in Northern Ireland.
[4] He worked as one of Derry's best-known solicitors and often represented the poor and underprivileged,[5] earning him the description by one leading local agitator of "the usually unpaid advocate of any Bogsider in trouble".
*[6] Wilton was disappointed at the decision of the Unionist Stormont government not to locate the province's second university in Derry City, but in Coleraine instead.