[2] On 3 July 1926, it was announced that Willson was to be knighted, and this was carried out by Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, at Viceregal Lodge, Delhi, on 18 January 1927.
[5] In 1928, he presented a portrait by Tilly Kettle of Elijah Impey, First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Fort William, to the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta.
Badge — A portcullis chained, surmounted by a sun in splendour or.”[1] After retiring to Kent, Willson was a member of the Tunbridge Wells Corporation from 1932 to 1935.
[8] In 1943, their daughter Rachel Mary married Mervyn Christopher Thursby-Pelham, a young Welsh Guards officer who was later a brigadier.
[9] Willson died on 16 April 1952 at a nursing home in Tonbridge, leaving an estate valued for probate at £140,035, equivalent to £5,089,468 in 2023.