1380 Frederick Wilson

Constituency : Mid  Norfolk  1895-1906

Frederick  unseated  the  Liberal  Unionist  Robert  Gurdon  just  months  after losing  to  him  in  a  by-election.

Frederick  was  a  local  man  educated  at  Wymondham  Grammar  School. He  was  both  a  farmer  and  a  newspaper  owner  having  founded  the  East  Anglian  Daily  Times  in  1874. He  had  previously  worked  on  the  Liverpool  Daily  Post  and  was  a  volunteer  defender  of  Chester  Castle  against  the  Fenians  in  1867. He  later  met  up  with  one  of  the  attackers, Michael  Davitt  in  the  Commons In  1894  he  became  President  of  the  Newspaper  Society  of  the  United  Kingdom.

In  1897  Frederick  rode  in  the  Parliamentary  steeplechase. He  also  played  chess  for  the  Commons  against  a  team  of  US  congressmen.

Frederick  was  a  founder  of  the  Norfolk  Small  Holdings  Association.

Frederick  stood  down  in  1906. He  became  President  of  the  Institute  of  Journalists  in  1907.

He  died  in  1924  aged  80.