Sir Reginald Victor Wilson KBE was an Australian politician and businessman.
12 Facts About Victor Wilson
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Victor Wilson was educated at Riverton and Whinham College, North Adelaide.
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Victor Wilson bought a store at Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1898 and he married Lily May Suckling in February 1901.
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Victor Wilson was elected an alderman of the City of Broken Hill in 1908, but moved to Adelaide in 1909.
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Victor Wilson was mayor of the Corporate Town of St Peters in 1916 and 1917.
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Victor Wilson ran unsuccessfully for the South Australian Legislative Assembly seats of Torrens in 1912 and East Torrens in 1918, but was elected to the Australian Senate as a nominee of the Farmers and Settlers' Association to the composite Nationalist Party of Australia ticket at the 1919 election.
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Victor Wilson later negotiated a reciprocal trade agreement with Canada, which still gives some preferences for cars and car parts.
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Victor Wilson returned to Australia in June 1924 and was appointed Minister for Markets and Migration in January 1925.
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Victor Wilson was president of the Motion Picture Distributors' Association from 1927 to 1939 and was accused of favouring American over Australian and British films.
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Victor Wilson served on the National Health and Medical Research Council, senior vice-chairman of the Royal North Shore Hospital, and chairman of National Press Ltd, the publisher of Smith's Weekly.
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Victor Wilson died in his house in the Sydney suburb of Neutral Bay on 13 July 1957, survived by two daughters.
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Victor Wilson was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1926.