[9][10] [11], Wilson's father, Alexander Wilson senior, had a 40-year career in the British Army, progressing from a 15-year-old bugler to a Lieutenant Colonel Quartermaster in the Royal Army Medical Corps by the time he died in 1919. So rather than the historical adventure or romance it might have been in an earlier era, “Mrs. [33] Crook proposes that the British government took steps to prevent Wilson from "obtaining any kind of official or responsible employment" ever again, ending his publishing career and plunging him and his families into poverty. FO1093/263, The National Archives, Public Record Office, Kew, Richmond, Surrey. By the mid-1950s Wilson was working as a hospital porter in a casualty unit in West London, when he met and, in 1955, married a nurse, Elizabeth Hill (1921-2010), with whom he had a son, Douglas that same year. Sons of Waziristan Chiefs and farmers from the North West Frontier received training here for the British Indian Army. He told Gladys that he would find a place for them all to live. [42] Ruth's brother, Sam Wilson, a senior BBC journalist, wrote an article in The Times in 2010 that explored the impact of Alexander Wilson's complicated private life on his various families. [10], En route to British India Wilson met actress Dorothy Phyllis Wick (1893-1965) on the SS City of Nagpur, bound from Liverpool to Karachi. [3] There is no documentary evidence that Wilson had any connections at this time with MI6 (the Secret Intelligence Service), MI5 (the Security Service), IPI (the Indian Political Intelligence in London), or the Indian Intelligence Bureau in Delhi. 1944). He said his subsequent misadventures, including being declared bankrupt, though never discharged, and being jailed for petty theft, were part of the cover he had to adopt for operational reasons. Crook uncovered Wilson's marriage to Gladys, whose son Dennis told him about the funeral arrangements, and so revealed the marriage to Alison. [35] A report noted that the translator had faked a burglary at his flat and had been in serious trouble with the police. Ruth Wilson of “Luther” and “The Affair” is the granddaughter of Alec’s third wife, Alison, and she plays her victimized, mystified grandmother in “Mrs. Although the translator's name is redacted, it is likely to be Alexander Wilson, since the details disclosed match those included in the first part of a memoir, written by Alison Wilson for her two sons, and quoted in Crook's 2010 biography of Wilson. 1942) and Nigel (b. [14], In 1925 Wilson answered an advertisement in The Times for a position as Professor of English Literature at Islamia College at the University of Punjab in Lahore (now part of Pakistan). All relationship and family history information shown on FameChain has been compiled from data in the public domain. He managed to keep his four families mostly secret from each other during his lifetime, and his children (and many grandchildren) only got to know one another more than 40 years after he died.