DEATH OF LADY WILSON
WELL-KNOWN AUCKLANDER
A vice-president of the Lyceum Club and president for six years of the Y.W.C.A., Lady Wilson, widow of Sir George Wilson, died on Tuesday at her home, 5 Upland Road, Remuera, at the age of 72. Lady Wilson was also a leading member of the Victoria League and was at one time president of the Auckland Travel Club. Since the beginning of the war she had done a great dear of practical patriotic work. Lady Wilson,, who was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Charles Calverley. -She was married in England in 1893, and went to Canada shortly after her marriage, living ih Toronto for 16 years, Sir George Wilson was thD founder of the'firm of Wilson, Canham, and Company. X In 1908 Sir George and Lady Wilson came to live in Ne.w Zealand, taking up residence in Upland Road in 1917. Their only child was a boy, who died at the age of 12. Sir George Wilson died in 1939, and all Lady Wilson's surviving relatives are in Canada or England.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1942, Page 11
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