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3 unusual facts about Thomas Wilson


Thomas Wilson

Thomas D. Wilson (born 1935), information scientist researching information-seeking behaviors

Thomas Spencer Wilson (1727–1798), British Army officer and Member of Parliament

Thomas Fleming Wilson (1862–1929), British Member of Parliament for North East Lanarkshire, 1910–1911


Winwick, Cheshire

Richard Sherlock was the incumbent at Winwick for some thirty years in the seventeenth century, and Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man, spent his early years in the care of Sherlock at Winwick.


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Gin Craze

As consumption levels increased, an organised campaign for more effective legislation began to emerge, led by the Bishop of Sodor and Man, Thomas Wilson (who, in 1736, had complained that gin produced a 'drunken ungovernable set of people').

Thomas Spencer Wilson

The son of Sir Thomas Wilson, 4th Baronet, he succeeded his brother in the baronetcy in 1760.

Walter Bartley Wilson

He was born in St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, the son of Thomas Wilson, a brushmaker, and Sarah Hathaway, a teacher.