Mathew Wilson

Sir Mathew Wilson, 1st Baronet DL (29 August 1802 – 18 January 1891) was an English landowner and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1842 and 1886.

He was educated at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford.

Notwithstanding incidents of electoral malpractice, he was created a baronet on 28 February 1874[3] and later that year was elected as MP for West Riding of Yorkshire North.

He married, June Louisa Emerson Amcotts, only daughter of Sir Wharton Emerson Amcotts, Bart, of Kettlethorpe Park, Lincolnshire, on 15 June 1826.

She died in 1833 and many years later Wilson married Frances Pedler.