The Lord Wilson of Tillyorn
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The Right Honourable The Lord Wilson of Tillyorn KT GCMG FRSE |
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| Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland | |
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In office 2010–2011 |
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| Preceded by | Sir George Reid |
| Succeeded by | James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas |
| President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | |
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In office 2008–2011 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Michael Atiyah |
| Succeeded by | John Arbuthnott |
| Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen | |
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In office 1997–2013 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Kenneth Alexander |
| Succeeded by | Camilla, Duchess of Rothesay |
| Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge | |
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In office 2002–2008 |
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| Preceded by | Sir John Meurig Thomas |
| Succeeded by | Prof. Adrian Dixon |
| 27th Governor of Hong Kong | |
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In office 9 April 1987 – 9 July 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Edward Youde |
| Succeeded by | Chris Patten |
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14 February 1935 Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland |
| Spouse(s) | Natasha Helen Mary (née Alexander) |
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| Profession | Colonial administrator, diplomat, sinologist |
David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, KT, GCMG, FRSE (born 14 February 1935) is a retired Scottish administrator, diplomat and Sinologist. Lord Wilson of Tillyorn was the penultimate Commander-in-Chief and 27th Governor of Hong Kong (from 1987 to 1992). He served as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the British Monarch's representative to the Assembly, in 2010 and 2011.
He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Wilson was born in Alloa in Scotland and was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, and Keble College, Oxford (1955–58, Master of Arts), and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (PhD in contemporary Chinese history, 1973). He studied Chinese at the University of Hong Kong from 1960 to 1962 and then served in the British Mission in Beijing. He is fluent in Mandarin and has mastered basic Cantonese and spent 10 of his 30 years as a diplomat in China.
In 1968 Wilson resigned from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to edit The China Quarterly at the School of Oriental and African Studies. After rejoining the Diplomatic Service in 1974 he worked in the Cabinet Office and then, from 1977 to 1981, as Political Adviser to Sir Murray MacLehose, then Governor of Hong Kong. Following that he became Head of Southern European Department in the FCO and then Assistant Under Secretary for Asia and the Pacific during which time he was Head of the British side of the Working Group engaged in drafting the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong and then, in 1984, the first Senior British Representative on the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group (中英聯合聯絡小組) set up under the Joint Declaration. When Sir Edward Youde died in Beijing on 5 December 1986, Wilson replaced him to become the Governor of Hong Kong in 1987.
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