George Wilson

(1808-1870)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Wilson George (1808-1870) Chairman of Anti Corn Law League DNB: Wilson, George (1808-1870), campaigner against the corn laws LBT ID: GeWilso1870	B/BAP: 1808-04-24 DIED: 1870-12-29
SOURCES: DNB
He was chairman of the Anti-Corn-Law Association, and afterwards of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company (1867).
REFERENCES TO George Wilson: Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter IV Found 1: ¶ 7 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 3