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John Gerald WILSON CB (1841-1902)
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| Name: | John Gerald WILSON |
| Sex: | Male |
| Name Suffix: | CB |
| Father: | Richard Bassett WILSON (1806-1867) |
| Mother: | Anne FITZGERALD ( -1877) |
Individual Events and Attributes
| Birth | 29 Dec 1841 | Yorkshire, Man[s]field |
| Death | 8 Mar 1902 | |
| Occupation | Colonel in the Army |
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Individual Note 1
John Gerald Wilson of Cliffe was Colonel, 3rd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment.
"Wilson. - Col. John Gerald Wilson, C.B., commanding 3rd Batt. York and Lancaster Regt., died March 8th, 1902, of wounds received in action between Tweebosch and Palmietkuil the previous day. He was the eldest son of the late Richard Bassett Wilson, Esq., of Cliffe, by his marriage with Anne, daughter of the late William Fitzgerald, Esq., of Adelphi, co. Clare. Col. Wilson was born in 1841, and educated at Cheltenham. He joined the 84th Regt. in 1858 from the Royal Military College as an ensign. After the death of his father in 1867, and his succession to the family estate of Cliffe Hall, Piercebridge, Darlington, he retired from the army as a capt., but subsequently accepted a commission in the volunteer force, and in 1873 was appointed to the command of the 1st North Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers. From the latter he was transferred in 1883 to the command of the 3rd West Yorkshire Militia, now the 3rd Batt. York and Lancaster Regt., and in 1889 he was appointed to the command of the West Yorkshire Volunteer Brigade. He was awarded the C.B. on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria in 1897, and was hon. col. of the 2nd Volunteer Batt. Prince of Wales’s West Yorkshire Regt. His battalion was first embodied in Dec., 1899, being disembodied after twelve months’ service. It was again embodied in Dec., 1901, and volunteering for active service proceeded to South Africa. In the course of the war, Col. Wilson lost a brother (Col. Richard B. Wilson) and a son (2nd Lieut. Richard B. Wilson). The name of Col. J. G. Wilson is inscribed on the Eleanor Cross War Memorial erected at Cheltenham College."
His service record from the eighty-fourth regiment:
"Wilson, John Gerald, C.B.-Born at Cliffe Hall, Darlington, December 29th, 1841. From R.M.C. to Ensign 84th Foot without purchase December 31st, 1858; Lieutenant by purchase December 19th, 1862; Captain by purchase December 4th, 1866; Retired by sale of his Commission September 13th 1867; Lieutenant-Colonel 1st North York Rifle Volunteers June 9th, 1871; Resigned January, 1883; Lieutenant-Colonel 3rd Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment January 20th, 1883. Went with the 3rd Battalion to the South African War in 1901, and died of wounds received in action on March 2nd, 1902, while with Lord Methuen's column between Tweebosch and Palmietkiul. Served in Malta April 3rd, 1865, to June 13th, 1866."
Extract from The Last Post - Roll of Officers who fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner, published by Naval and Military Press
Individual Note 2
ALDBROUGH is a township containing 1,807 acres and 400 inhabitants. The soil is fertile, and in a high state of cultivation. The gross estimated rental of the township is £2,685, and the rateable value, £2,421. Eleanor, dowager duchess of Northumberland, is lady of the manor, and the most extensive landowner;
Col,. J. G. Wilson, Cliffe Hall, owns 145 acres; Messrs. Hutchinson and Shipton, 22 acres; and Miss Spencely, six acres besides cottage property.
Individual Note 3
HISTORY OF CLIFFE
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1890.
(The following text is as it was said, in the year 1890).
Cliffe township, containing about 700 acres, situated in the wapentake of
West Gilling, is the property of Colonel Wilson. Rateable value £960, and
population 72.
The village, which is small, stands on the south bank of the river Tees,
and derives its name from the cliffs which here margin the river. Hard by
is the old Roman road, Watling Street, and on the opposite side of the
river, on the spot where Piercebridge now stands, was a Roman station,
part of the western vallum of which remained till 1822, when it was
demolished by the then occupant, James O'Callaghan, Esq., M.P., and the
stones, except for a few that retained fragments of inscriptions, were
used in the erection of farm buildings. Horsley and Hodgson identify this
station with the Magis of the Itinerary, and from its position we may
assume that its purpose was the protection of the ford by which the road
from York to the Great Wall here crossed the river.
Previous to the present day bridge, erected in 1797, there was a so called
"Priest's Bridge" which was destroyed in the great flood of 1771, and
remained down until 1798. Previous to this, a Roman Bridge having five
arches and presumably of wood from evidence of timber framing which was
visible up to the time of the great flood of 1771.
Cliffe Hall, the seat of Colonel Wilson, is a neat mansion, rebuilt in
1859 by the present owners father.
Cliffe estate was for several centuries the property of the Withams, who
resided at the Hall. It came into their possession by the marriage of
George Witham, Esq., with Margaret, daughter and co-heir of John Wawton,
of Cliffe. She died in 1479, and is buried at Manfield.
From records dated 1823, the estate was quoted as having a population of
53
And a Catholic chapel ministered by the Rev. William Hogarth.
The Hall and estate were sold by the representative of the family in 1825, to John Wilson, Esq., grandfather of the present Colonel John Gerald Wilson, J.P. and D.L. In the park is a tumulus; and in 1844, within half a mile of the fortress, a monumental slab was found where the road turns off to Cliffe Hall. The inscription has been rendered as; This stone was erected by Aurelia Fadilla to the memory of her husband, aged 22, Centurion of the Second Thracians,, from Germany Superior.
[Description(s) from Bulmers History and Directory of North Yorkshire
(1890).