George Wilson (reformer)

He was educated at the Manchester commercial school and at evening classes, and was at one time a pupil of John Dalton.

He was secretary to the committee which obtained the charter of incorporation for Manchester in 1839, and sat as a member of the town council from 1841 to 1844.

[1] During those five years Wilson presided over the largest British public meetings held up to that time, to agitate constitutionally for a change in the law.

He was as director of the Electric Telegraph Company, and with Joseph Adshead he established the Manchester Night Asylum.

[1] Wilson married, in 1837, Mary, daughter of John Rawson, merchant and manufacturer, of Manchester, by whom he had seven children.