Ian Wilson
Politician
1932 – 2013
Who was Ian Wilson?
Ian Bonython Cameron Wilson AM, solicitor, company director and Australian politician, was born in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of Sir Keith Wilson, a prominent United Australia Party and Liberal Party politician. His mother, Elizabeth, was a granddaughter of Sir John Langdon Bonython, owner of The Advertiser and a member of the first federal House of Representatives, and a great-granddaughter of Sir John Cox Bray, South Australia's first native-born premier.
Wilson was educated at St Peter's College and Adelaide University, where he graduated in law, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he did a higher law degree. He was a solicitor and company director before entering politics.
In 1966, Wilson was elected to the House of Representatives for the Adelaide seat of Sturt, which his father had held with one break since 1949. It was considered a fairly safe Liberal seat, but at the 1969 election there was a strong swing to Labor in South Australia, and Wilson was unexpectedly defeated by Norm Foster, a waterside worker. In the 1972 election, after spending a great deal of family money, Wilson regained the seat, and thereafter held it without difficulty for over 20 years.
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- Born
- May 2, 1932
Adelaide - Parents
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Education
- University of Adelaide
- Died
- Apr 3, 2013
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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