Sir Samuel Wilson was an Irish-born Australian pastoralist and politician, and later a British Member of Parliament.
"a squatter" Wilson as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, January 1885
Funerary monument, Kensal Green Cemetery, London
Lady Sarah Wilson
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Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson became one of the first female war correspondents in 1899, when she was recruited by Alfred Harmsworth to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the S
Samuel Wilson (Portsmouth MP)
…four sons and five daughters: all four sons and two of the daughters survived him. His eldest son, Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Chesney Wilson, married Lady Sarah Isabella Churchill, sister of Lord Randolph Churchill, he fell in The First World War on 6 November 1914 and is buried at Zillebeke Churchyard, West Flanders, Belgium…
1893 photograph of Lady Sarah
Three soldiers talk with Sarah Wilson in Mafeking. She is seated by the door to her bomb shelter.
Lady Sarah Wilson during the Siege of Mafeking during the Second Boer War
Wilson's husband at the Devonshire House Ball of 1897