Herbert Wrigley Wilson

Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1866 - 12 July 1940), often known only by his initials H. W. Wilson, was a British journalist and naval historian.

He was the eldest son of the Reverend George Edwin Wilson (Vicar of St. John's, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, and later of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire) and, like three of his five brothers, became a journalist. According to the memoires of his brother G. H. Wilson, editor of the "Cape Times", H. W. Wilson was "chief leader writer" and assistant editor of the "Daily Mail" from 1898 until his death in 1940.

Aside from his newspaper work, Wilson was also the author or co-author of numerous books about naval and military history:

*"Battleships in Action" (1896)
*"The Protection of Our Commerce in War" (1896)
*"Ironclads in Acton" (1897)
*"The Forthcoming Naval Review and It's Predecessors" (1897)
*"The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present" (7 vols., 1897-1903)
*"Nelson and His Times" (1898)
*"When War Breaks Out" (1898)
*"The Growth of the World's Armaments" (1898)
*"The Naval Situation with Textual Tables" (1899)
*"Adam Duncan (1731-1804)" (1899)
*"The Downfall of Spain" (1900)
*"With the Flag to Pretoria" (1900-01)
*"After Pretoria" (1902)
*"New Light on Napoleon's Invasion Projects" (1902)
*"Mr. Chamberlain's New Policy" (1903)
*"Japan's Fight for Freedom" (1905)
*"The Invasion of 1910" (1906)
*"The Great War" (13 vols., 1914-19)
*"Convicted out of Her Own Mouth: The Record of German Crimes" (1917)
*"Hush or the Hydrophone Service" (1920)
*"Northcliffe House" (1927)
*"The War Guilt" (1928)
*"His Majesty the King" (1935)

References

Wilson, George Hough, "Gone Down the Years", George Allen Unwin Ltd. (1947)