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LORD Wilson of Tillyorn GCMG
avid Clive Wilson was born at Alloa in Scotland on February 14, 1935. He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, and Keble College, Oxford, where he was a scholar, graduating in Modern History in 1958. Between school and university he did national service in the Army from 1953 to 1955, was commissioned in the Black Watch (RHR), and served some of that time in British Guiana.
He entered the Foreign Service in 1958 and worked first in the South-East Asia Department of the Foreign Office and then as Third Secretary in Vientiane. In 1960 he was assigned to full-time Chinese language studies at Hong Kong University for two years and at the beginning of 1963 was posted to Peking as Third, later Second, Secretary
In 1965 he returned to the Foreign Office, on promotion to First Secretary, to work in the Far Eastern Department. Three years later he resigned from the diplomatic service to take up the appointment of Executive Editor of "The China Quarterly' at the temporary China Institute of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University.
During that period he took a sabbatical as a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York, in 1972 and gained a PhD from London University in 1973.
In 1974 Lord Wilson rejoined the diplomatic service and worked for three-and-a-half years in the Cabinet Office. From 1977 to 1981, following promotion to the rank of counsellor, he served as Political Adviser to the Governor of Hong Kong, returning to London at the end of 1981 to become Head of Southern European Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
In February 1984, with a further promotion, he was appointed Assistant Under-Secretary of State responsible for Asia and the Pacific in the FCO.
Lord Wilson was made a KCMG on the occasion of his appointment in January 1987 as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong. He arrived in Hong Kong on April 9, 1987 to take up his appointment. He was made a GCMG in the New Year Honours List 1991 and a Life Peer in the New Year Honours List 1992.
In 1967 he married Natasha (Helen Mary) Alexander. She was born in Oxford in 1943 and brought up in Geneva and London. They have two sons, Peter and Andrew, born in 1968 and 1969 respectively. Lady Wilson trained as a teacher and started a nursery school in London in 1965. She still owns and runs the school in which she herself taught for twenty years. Lady Wilson is now involved in many different organisations within Hong Kong, where she is Patron of over forty of them. Lady Wilson has taken a keen interest in education, the handicapped and the elderly,
Lord Wilson's main outside interests are mountaineering and reading. He was a meinber of the 1981 British expedition to Mount Kongur in China. He speaks fluent Putonghua and reads Chinese.
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