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Death of Sir C. Wilson.

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Death of Sir C. Wilson. PEMBROKESHIRE SOLDIER AND EXPLORER. The death of Major-General Sir Charles William Wilson, K.C.B., F.R.S., on Wednesday, at Tunbridge Wells, removes one who attained distinction as a soldier, a topographer, and an archaeologist. Born at Liverpool on March 14, 1836, the son of the late Mr Edward Wilson, of Hean Castle, Pembrokeshire, he was educa- ted first at St. Davids, and finally at Cheltenham College, from which he obtained the second place in the first open competition for the Royal Engineers and his commission as Lieu- tenant in 1855. Between 1858 and 1862, he I acted as secretary to the North American Boundary Commission, which no doubt proved I his special fitness for this kind of topographical work, since two years later, when a topograph- survey of Jerusalem was undertaken, under j the superintendence of Sir Henry James, Captain Wilson.was sent to carry it out with a small detachment from the Royal engineers. On his return he was appointed, in 1866, to the Ordnance Survey of Scotland, Mid next year acted as Assistant Commissioner on the Borough f Boundary Commission. In the rri y. was married to a daughter of the .u ■ Duffin. In 1869 gen- eral si'p^rinte1 .—y;)f the ••• i ■ I' as .:■■■■■■ ■ • 2 .A.H s L j ^.niello whera he '.c. cosnag H;iJjor, J'll -i following year 6.S. '< tioli of the e, I Iii c ■\ the Ordnance Survey of 1, ■ lie ''v: ted Bpitma. (I pn tNe v.er und u\ 'i v,Ml. he. s' 4 ivd the • ink oi nel, ■ ie^ante Gene h this oSice H.R 1383, .i i • specie. missions C i in 1880, and to the »j. ii I'l i lT;u-koy in the i A..ii year, i W .L.-II was crr-J -nl f I i i •' <ip,'ci'"i«"4 ■ ■>, i I j ii t.1 uC \j vV t oi y pa '.i ,l-;yT f in Kurope aud "'1 ■ western. i'.ait of /l.c-r, ihd thus j i<' n'fuch to bip, 1 > < p'VCdL LUvl I loc c i knowledge. St>" i TT >n iifc '\v, ■ .Is srrv d in r ■ ,»t < .i'-vi t >■. in tie 1m" 1 '>"ei th<> Gordon.

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