Harriett Charlotte Wilson (née Friedeberg; 14 September 1916 – 14 July 2002) was a British sociologist and activist born in Germany.
In 1935, she married Harro Veit Simon, a Jewish family friend, with whom she was forced to flee from Nazi Germany.
That year she married Arthur James Cochran Wilson (1914–1995), a Canadian crystallographer, who was later a professor at Cardiff and Birmingham universities.
Her criticism of the new Labour government for ignoring family allowances contributed to the formation in 1965 of the Child Poverty Action Group, of which she was vice-chair until 1982.
[1] Harriet C. Wilson died on 14 July 2002 at the Royal Free Hospital, Camden, London, of pulmonary embolism.