Roderick Maclean
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Roderick Edward Maclean attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria with a pistol on 2 March 1882, in Windsor, England. He was the son of Charles Maclean, owner of Fun magazine.
Roderick Maclean
Gordon Chesney Wilson
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Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Chesney Wilson was a British Army officer and husband of the war correspondent Lady Sarah Wilson. As an Eton College student he assisted in thwarting Roderick Maclean's assas
Roderick Maclean
…forward and struck Maclean with his umbrella, disconcerting his aim — which was unlikely enough, in any case, to have been accurate. The boy in question, Gordon Chesney Wilson, was called to the Castle by her Majesty and thanked for his promptitude. He was the son of Sir Samuel Wilson, the Australian wool magnate, who introduced…
Wilson at the Devonshire House Ball of 1897
Lady Sarah Wilson's dugout where Wilson initially recuperated from peritonitis
Robert Baden-Powell's staff after the Siege of Mafeking. Wilson is in the top row, fifth from the left
Wilson (third from left) in the VIP seats on the Uganda Railway