Guy Fleetwood Wilson
Sir Guy Douglas Arthur Fleetwood Wilson was a British public servant who served in British India for more than half a century.
Fleetwood Wilson was born and raised in Florence, Italy, where he was known as Guido, a name that stuck with him throughout his life. He was the son of Capt. Thomas Hugh Fleetwood Wilson of the 8th Hussars, who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Barbados, and Harriet Horatia Walker, daughter of Capt. Charles Montagu Walker of the Royal Naval.
He was knighted in 1902, sworn in as a Privy Counsellor in 1914, and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1905, Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George 1908, and a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1911.
In 1922, he published a memoir of his correspondence, Letters to Somebody: A Retrospect.
He was a devoted reader of The Times, and wrote to the newspaper in 1932:
He died in Stratford-upon-Avon, aged 90.
