Talk:John Wilson (British Army officer, died 1819)

Father

The father is said by an obituary to be the Rev. Cuthbert Wilson. There are two who held positions in Newcastle, contemporaries, one being an Oxford graduate, and one a Cambridge graduate. In 1772, they both preached at St Ann's chapel, one dying in 1773. The latter was Cuthbert Wilson "of Gateshead", graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford and father of Robert Wilson, Fellow of All Soul's, s:Page:Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 4.djvu/389.

The former is "Wilson, Cuthbert (WL738C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. He was a graduate of St John's College, Cambridge, and died 1791. He resided at Hatheridge (now Halkridge), just north of Chesters, i.e. the location attached to John Wilson's will.[1] See also [2].

Charles Matthews (talk) 06:29, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Obituary text, probably from the Newcastle Courant and anyway found at [3]:

WILSON On the 18th last, at his house in Cleveland-row, St James’s, London, in his 55th year, Major-Gen. John WILSON, colonel of the late 4th Ceylon regiment, and son of the late Rev. Cuthbert Wilson, of this town. Major-Gen. Wilson succeeded Sir T. Maitland in the civil and military command at Ceylon in 1811, and at the latter end of 1815, he was selected by his majesty` ministers for the civil and military government of Canada, in the absence of Sir G. Prevost ; from thence he returned about 18 months ago, in a bad state of health, and has ever since laboured under severe indisposition.

Charles Matthews (talk) 07:11, 24 July 2017 (UTC)