Baron Wilson
Henry Maitland Wilson (left) and Sir Oliver Leese
Baron Wilson , of Libya and of Stowlangtoft in the County of Suffolk , was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .
Award
The title was created in 1946 for the well-known Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson . This was in the Second World War, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Mediterranean and later head of the British joint staff mission in the United States .
The title expired with the death of his son, the second baron, in 2009.
List of Barons Wilson (1946)
- Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson (1881–1964)
- Patrick Maitland Wilson, 2nd Baron Wilson (1915-2009)