Major-General Sir Wilsone Black KCB (10 February 1837 – 5 July 1909) was a British military officer and colonial administrator.

[1] He served in the Crimea War from 1855 and was present at the Siege of Sebastopol.

[1] He recovered the Queen's Colour of the 1st Bn of the 24th Regiment which had been lost in the Buffalo River after the Battle of Isandlwana.

[1] He became Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong in 1895[1] and was Acting Administrator in Hong Kong for a short period between February and November 1898.

[1] Wilsone Black's life is commemorated on a memorial tablet in Brecon Cathedral.