Godfrey Wilson (politician)

Godfrey Harold Alfred Wilson OBE (29 October 1871 – 13 July 1958) was an Australian-born politician and academic at Cambridge University.

He was a decorated army officer during World War I, and was MP for the university from 1929 to 1935.

[3] Following the 1919 New Year Honours in which Wilson was promoted from Major to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, General Earle stated that: Lieut.-Colonel Wilson has been concerned in the vast organisation for raising the corps of officers for the army, which now amounts to about a quarter of a million, the whole of which has been dependent on him.

[1] He resigned from Parliament on being appointed vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, a position he held from 1935 to 1937.

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