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Edwin Wilson Edwin Wilson i(A16108 works by) (birth name: Edwin James Wilson) (a.k.a. 'Peter' Wilson; Ed Wilson; Eddie Wilson)
Born: Established: 27 Oct 1942 Lismore, Lismore - Goonellabah, Lismore area, Far Northeast NSW, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 27 Jul 2022
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Edwin Wilson was a poet who also published novels, autobiographies and works on botany. His Danish great-grandfather 'jumped ship' at Sydney during the gold rushes and Anglicised his surname to 'Wilson', most probably from Wilhelm Jensen Sondelev. Edwin Wilson, known as a child as 'Peter', spent a formative decade, aged six to sixteen years, at Mullumbimby before moving to Tweed Heads. He completed a science degree at the University of New South Wales in 1967. After working for a time as a science teacher he lectured at Armidale Teachers' College (1968-1972) and planted a garden of now maturing trees at 'The Poet's House.'

In 1972 Edwin Wilson was appointed as an Education Officer at The Australian Museum. In 1980 he took up work in community relations at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Wilson's book on the Botanic Gardens, The Wishing Tree (1992), was re-published in 2004 as Poetry of Place. After his retirement in 2003 Wilson focused on writing, painting and orchid growing.

In 2008, he was elected as an exhibiting member of the Royal Art Society (RAS) of New South Wales and in 2010 won the RAS Medal of Distinction for the Spring exhibition.

Edwin Wilson died in 2022.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Other works not individually indexed include:

    Oliver Bainbridge Lord Nelson's great grandson? : the incredible story of Francis (Frank) Nelson (aka 'Oliver Bainbridge') : an unacknowledged casualty of the death of empire (2013)

    Discovering the Domain / edited by Edwin Wilson, researched Shirley Colless (1986)

Personal Awards

2020 recipient Order of Australia Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) For service to the visual arts, and to the community.
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