[2] He worked for the Financial Times for four years before joining the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong as Editor in 1958.
With his wife Sally he moved into a detached Georgian house in Grove Lane, Camberwell and they adopted two children, Emma and Ben.
Wilson had suffered a serious illness during his early travelling years and in later life this led to his posture becoming more and more stooped.
However he continued writing well into the 2000s, turning his attention mostly to the Indian subcontinent, but this work appears to remain unpublished.
His wife Sally was also in hospital at the time (she too died a few months later) and his death passed unnoticed by the media.