Charles Henry Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme (22 April 1833 – 21 October 1907), was a prominent English

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who became head of the Thomas Wilson Sons & Co. shipping business. Together with his brother he expanded the activities of the company, into one of the largest in Britain. He also served as Liberal MP for Hull for thirty years, and in 1906 received the title

Baron Nunburnholme Baron Nunburnholme, of the City of Kingston-upon-Hull, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1906 for the former Liberal Member of Parliament for Hull and Hull West, Charles Wilson. His son, the second Baron, al ...

Life

Charles was the eldest son of Thomas Wilson, the head of Thomas Wilson Sons & Co., a Hull shipping company founded in the Swedish ore trade. He was educated at Kingston College in Hull, along with his brother

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, before eventually joining the family business, where they both became joint managers in 1867. Under the brother's management the shipping company rapidly expanded adding Adriatic, Sicilian, American and Indian services to the pre-existing Norwegian and Baltic trade. In 1891 the company became a private limited company, with capital of £2.5 million, and expanded with the acquisition of

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(Hull) in 1903; and the shipping interests of the North Eastern Railway in 1908. Wilson was also became chairman of

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, the United Shipping Company and the Hull Steam Fish and Ice Company. Charles Henry Wilson, Vanity Fair, 1885-02-21

Wilson served as high sheriff of Hull, and from 1874 to 1905 he was

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(MP) for the Hull constituency, from 1885 representing Hull West. Although opposed to the

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, he lent the company's finest vessel, ''Ariosto'', at the government's disposal. He was given the Freedom of the City of Hull in 1899, and in 1906 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Nunburnholme, of the City of

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. Lord Nunburnholme died at his residence, Warter Priory, Warter,

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, on 21 October 1907 and was buried on 31 October. His eldest son Charles, who had succeeded him as MP for Hull West, inherited the Barony.

Family

Wilson married Florence Jane Helen Wellesley (1853–1932), a daughter of Col. William Henry Charles Wellesley, nephew of

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. They had seven children.

Issue

References

Sources

* ; online edn., May 2006

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