Clifford William Wilton (15 March 1916 – 16 July 1987) was a Scottish rugby union player and businessman.
[1] Grandson of Sir Thomas Wilton, founder of Renwick Wilton & Co., coal merchants and travel agents, Clifford William Wilton was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne and educated at Fettes College, then Caius College, Cambridge (MA), and Gray's Inn, from where he was called to the Bar and thus qualified as a barrister.
He had to make a statement confirming that the tour to South Africa would be going ahead despite condemnation of the apartheid regime in 1961: 'We have great respect for the opinions of these different bodies, but so far as we are concerned our plans, which were made some time ago, are going ahead.
[1][22][23] The Newcastle Journal had to apologise to Wilton on 12 June 1985 when they stated he had died.
In fact, it was another past president of the Scottish Rugby Union Charlie Drummond who had died.