William Grey-Wilson
{{short description|British Colonial governor}}
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|honorific_prefix = Sir
|name = William Grey-Wilson
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|office = Governor of the Falkland Islands
|monarch = Queen Victoria
Edward VII
|predecessor = Sir Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy
|successor = Sir William Lamond Allardyce
|term_start = 1897
|term_end = 1904
|office2 = Governor of the Bahamas
|term_start2 = 1904
|term_end2 = 1912
|monarch2 = Edward VII
George V
|predecessor2 = Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter
|successor2 = Sir George Basil Haddon-Smith
|birth_date = 7 April 1852
|birth_place = Kent, UK
|death_date = 14 February 1926 (aged 73)
|death_place =
|spouse = Margaret G. Brown
}}
Sir William Grey-Wilson {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG|KBE|sep=,|size=100%}} (7 April 1852 – 14 February 1926) was a British colonial administrator.
He was born William Wilson, the son of Andrew Wilson, Inspector-General of Hospitals, Honorable East India Company and his wife Catherine Grey. He was educated at Cheltenham College.
In 1874 he became Private Secretary to Sir William Grey, the Governor of Jamaica and in 1877 to Sir Frederick Palgrave Barlee, Lieutenant Governor of British Honduras. In 1878 Grey-Wilson was appointed Clerk of the Executive and Legislative Councils of British Honduras and in 1884 Assistant Colonial Secretary of the Gold Coast.
In 1886 he served as Colonial Secretary of St Helena and from 1887 to 1897 as Governor of St Helena. From 1897 to 1904 he was Governor of the Falkland Islands and from 1904 to 1912 Governor of the Bahamas. He was knighted KCMG in 1904 {{London Gazette|issue=27732|page=7255|date=8 November 1904}} and KBE in 1918.{{cite book|title=The county families of the United Kingdom|url=https://archive.org/details/countyfamiliesof06walf|first=Edward|last=Walford|date=11 February 1871 }}
He died in 1926. He had married Margaret, the daughter of Robert Glasgow Brown, of Broadstone, Ayrshire and had 2 sons and a daughter.
References
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|url=http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3071B
|title=The unveiling of the statue of Queen Victoria on Empire Day by His Excellency Sir Wm Grey-Wilson
|accessdate=18 June 2012
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|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp81020/sir-william-grey-wilson
|title=Sir William Grey-Wilson
|publisher=National Portrait Gallery
|accessdate=18 June 2012
}}
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title = Governor of St. Helena |
before = Hudson Janisch |
after= Robert Sterndale |
years= 1887–1897 }}
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title = Governor of the Falkland Islands |
before = Sir Roger Goldsworthy, KCMG |
after= William Allardyce |
years= 1897–1904 }}
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title = Governor of the Bahamas |
before = Sir Gilbert Carter, KCMG |
after= Sir George Haddon-Smith |
years= 1904–1912 }}
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Category:People educated at Cheltenham College
Category:British governors of the Bahamas
Category:Governors of the Falkland Islands
Category:Governors of Saint Helena
Category:British colonial governors and administrators in the Americas
Category:British colonial governors and administrators in Africa
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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