Gordon Chesney Wilson
1865–1914Gordon Chesney Wilson and another schoolboy attacked Roderick Maclean with umbrellas and helped detain him during an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria.
Particulars
On 2 March 1882 Gordon Chesney Wilson was present with another schoolboy at Windsor railway station when Roderick Maclean attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria; the two boys attacked Maclean with their umbrellas and assisted in detaining him. Victoria visited Eton on 6 March, shook their hands in thanks, and some accounts reported that she promised the boys commissions in the British Army.
Gordon Chesney Wilson was later brought as a witness to Maclean's trial and he began studying at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1885.
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