Thomas Wilson OBE FRSE FBA FRSA (23 June 1916 – 27 July 2001) was a 20th-century British economist, who spoke out strongly against the introduction of the poll tax in Britain.
He then studied History at Queen's College, Belfast before winning a place at Oxford University where he specialised in Economics graduating MA.
Although a socialist and communist-sympathiser, his observations on the Russian delegates at the 1938 World Youth Congress in Poughkeepsie, New York led him to conclude the system as a tyranny.
[2] In the Second World War he worked first for the Ministry of Economic Warfare and Aircraft Production in Whitehall, then became an advisor to Winston Churchill's statistics branch under Lord Cherwell.
His proposers were Fraser Noble, Thomas Brumby Johnston, Anthony Elliot Ritchie, Neil Campbell and Douglas Grant.