Printmaker, stained glass designer and watercolourist, born in Edinburgh. After apprenticeship to a stained glass studio in Edinburgh Wilson was an outstanding student at Edinburgh College of Art. In 1932 his engraving and etching won an RSA Travelling Scholarship to the continent; two years later he gained an Andrew Grant Fellowship and an RSA Guthrie Award which permitted him to study printmaking at Royal College of Art and stained glass in Germany. In 1937 Wilson opened a stained glass studio in Edinburgh and carried out work for churches and cathedrals in Britain and abroad. Alongside this reputation he painted watercolours, and made prints which established him as possibly Scotland’s finest practitioner of that art in the twentieth century.