David Wilson, BaronWilson of Tillyorn - The Right Honourable David Clive Wilson, BaronWilson of Tillyorn, KT, GCMG (born 14 February 1935) was a British administrator, diplomat and Sinologist.
Richard Wilson, BaronWilson of Dinton - Richard Thomas James Wilson, BaronWilson of Dinton KCB (born 11 October, 1942) is a cross bench member of the House of Lords.
BaronWilson (disambiguation) - BaronWilson or Lord Wilson properly refers only to a holder of the Barony of Wilson in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, created in 1946 for the Second World War Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson.
Wilson was first elected to the House of Commons in 1945 and was appointed president of the Board of Trade in 1947, becoming, at age 31, Britain's youngest cabinet minister since William Pitt the Younger in 1792.
In 1965 Wilson was unable to avert an illegal declaration of independence by the white minority government of the British colony of Rhodesia, and his subsequent efforts to topple the rebel government by the use of economic sanctions rather than by military force failed.
Wilson had widened his party's voting majority in the general election of 1966, but his popularity declined in the late 1960s, partly because of his assumption of direct responsibility for the economy shortly before the pound was devalued (Nov. 18, 1967).
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