Samuel Wilson (Portsmouth MP)

Sir Samuel Wilson (7 February 1832 – 11 June 1895) was an Irish-born Australian pastoralist and politician, and later a British Member of Parliament.

He arrived in Melbourne in May 1852 and worked on the goldfields, but a few months later decided to join two brothers who had preceded him to Australia, and had a pastoral property in the Wimmera.

He was made manager of one of their holdings, and selling a small property he had in Ireland, with his brothers bought Longerenong station for £40,000.

In 1878 a paper he had written was expanded into a volume, The Californian Salmon With an Account of its Introduction into Victoria, and published in the same year.

[7] About the beginning of 1881 he went to England with his family and leased Hughenden Manor, in Buckinghamshire, once the property of the Earl of Beaconsfield: and in London, a town house at 10 Grosvenor Square in Mayfair.

His eldest son, Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Chesney Wilson, married Lady Sarah Isabella Churchill, sister of Lord Randolph Churchill, he fell in The First World War on 6 November 1914 and is buried at Zillebeke Churchyard , West Flanders, Belgium.