Guy Wilson (politician)

Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Greville Wilson, CMG, DSO (19 May 1877 – 1 February 1943[1]) was a British soldier, company director, and Liberal Party politician from Kingston upon Hull.

His family owned Thomas Wilson Sons & Co., which was once the largest private shipowning concern in the world.

[4] He transferred to the Regular British Army in the 11th Hussars on 11 May 1898, and served in South Africa with this regiment during the Second Boer War,[3] during which he was promoted to lieutenant on 12 June 1900.

[3][8] Wilson was married twice, firstly on 23 June 1904[9] to Lady Isabel Ines-Ker (1879–1905), daughter of the 7th Duke of Roxburghe.

At the resulting by-election in November 1907, Guy was elected to succeed him,[1][13] with a narrow majority of 241 votes (1.5% of the total) over his Conservative Party opponent.