One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Pole.
Born Cheltenham where he is honoured with a statue on the Promenade and an exhibition in the town museum.
1896–8 he lived at 42 Vicarage Crescent (the blue plaque site) where he ran the Caius College Mission and worked at the Boys' Club run by the Mission. Here he was engaged in youth clubs and Sunday school classes for the children of the Battersea slums. At the Mission in 1897 Wilson met Oriana Souper. They were married on 16 July 1901, three weeks before he left for the Antarctic.
(The mission was a joint venture between St Mary's Church, Battersea and Caius College, Cambridge - Wilson's alma mater. It seems to have started in 1882, used the old Vicarage as Caius House from 1887 and then set up in a new 1892-3 building, also Caius House, in Holman Road Battersea.)
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