Charles Wilsonn

Charles Edward Wilsonn (1752 - 14 February 1829) was an English stationer and bookbinder and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1814 to 1818.

Wilsonn was the youngest son of Robert Wilsonn, stationer, of Lombard Street London, and his wife Jemima Bell. He was baptised at St Mary Stoke Newington on 9 July 1752^[1] to which parish the family had moved after the destruction of their home in Exchange Alley by fire in 1748.^[2] He was apprenticed to his father and freed by redemption on 3 May 1774 and went into partnership in the bookbinding and stationery business with his brother Richard in 1775. When his brother left the business in 1779, Wilsonn went into partnership Charles Sinclaire. In 1783 Wilsonn was a Freeman of the Stationers Company, and also common councillor for the Langbourne ward, which he retained until 1790. In 1791 he was trading on his own and was in livery by 1792.^[3] He was in various business ventures in the City of London and in 1803 was a director of Globe Insurance.^[4] One of his fellow directors was kinsman Miles Peter Andrews. Andrews was Member of Parliament for Bewdley^[5] and on his death in 1814, Wilsonn was elected MP for Bewdley. He resigned the seat in 1818.^[6] Wilsonn lived at Dome House at South Bersted, near Bognor Sussex. He died there at the age of 77.

Wilsonn married Elizabeth Nixon (d. 6 July 1835) of Lombard Street on 24 June 1774. They had no children. His nephew Stephen George Comyn was chaplain to Lord Nelson.

References

1. ^ Stoke Newington parish registers
2. ^ British Library Online Gallery
3. ^ Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History - The London book trades 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members. Names W-Z
4. ^ Advertisement in Tobias George Smollett The Critical review, or, Annals of literature, Volume 38
5. ^ Leigh Rayment
6. ^ T. C. Turberville Worcestershire in the Nineteenth Century: A Complete Digest of Facts

• R G Thorne History of Parliament: The Commons 1790-1820

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Wilsonn

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Miles Peter Andrews	Member of Parliament for Bewdley 1814–1818	Succeeded by Wilson Aylesbury Roberts

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Name	Wilsonn, Charles
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Date of birth	1742
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Date of death	14 February 1829
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