Name Charles 2nd Died August 15, 1924 | Party Liberal Party | |
Charles Henry Wellesley Wilson, 2nd Baron Nunburnholme, CB, DSO, (24 January 1875 – 15 August 1924), was a British peer, and one of the heirs to the Thomas Wilson Sons & Co., a Hull-based shipping company that built a near-monopoly over affordable travel packages from Scandinavia and the Baltic.
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Biography
He was the eldest son of Charles Henry Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme (1833–1907), who with his brother Arthur were joint managers of the firm founded by their father Thomas. The company had been managed by a non-family managing director since 1901, and was sold in 1916.
Wilson was a lieutenant in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War in October 1899, a corps of imperial volunteers from London was formed in late December 1899. The corps included infantry, mounted infantry and artillery divisions and was authorized with the name City of London Imperial Volunteers. It proceeded to South Africa in January 1900, returned in October the same year, and was disbanded in December 1900. Wilson was appointed a lieutenant of the mounted infantry division on 3 January 1900, with the temporary rank of Lieutenant in the Army, and served as such until the corps was disbanded. For his service in South Africa, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1901.
Wilson was elected at the 1906 general election as Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Hull West, succeeding his father who had held the seat since 1885. Charles Sr was ennobled as Baron Nunburnholme when he left the House of Commons. When he died in 1907, Charles jr. inherited the Barony, after only a year in the House of Commons.
He was Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire from 1908 to 1924.
Family
Wilson married in 1901 Lady Marjorie Wynn-Carrington, DStJ, eldest daughter of the Earl Carrington; she died 17 June 1968. They had three children: Monica, Charles and David. Monica, who married Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton, died 9 November 1974. David served as a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was killed in action 23 March 1941. Charles became, upon his father's death in August 1924, 3rd Baron Nunburnholme.