David Wilson (Calcutta)

David Wilson (Calcutta)

David Wilson was born in Brilley, Herefordshire in 1808. He worked as a confectioner in Calcutta and on 18 Nov 1840 he opened the Auckland Hotel at 1-3 Old Court House Road in Calcutta. The hotel was also known as Wilson's Hotel and changed its name to the Great Eastern Hotel. It became the most famous hotel in India and is still functioning today as the Grand Great Eastern Kolkata and is part of the Bharat Hotels Group.

David married Mary Mandy (née Rose) in Calcutta in 1838. One of their grandchildren was Lieut Boyd Alexander the famous African explorer. David's sister Anne was in Calcutta and married one of David's friends, also a confectioner, Frederick William Browne in 1840 also in Calcutta. Frederick died on 5 October 1864 on board the steamer Persia when it was lost at Sandheads in the great cyclone of 1864.

David moved back to England in the 1860s but continued to manage the hotel. Over the ensuing years the hotel moved from strength to strength. In 1863 it became the first hotel in India to be fully electrified. Over the years famous guests have included Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Nikita Khruskhev and Queen Elizabeth II.

When David died in 1880 his net worth was over 60000 pounds.

References

Thacker's Bengal Directories 1864-1884

David Wilson - Last Will and Testament - Principal Probate Registry Office High Holborn London


Does anyone know about Mr William Sier who worked for Wilson's and left the employ in 1859 after having an 'unfounded charge or gross mis-apprehension on the part of the Senior Partner Mr T A Morgan' ? Does anyone know why? He was a brother of the Lodge of Marine, Calcutta.

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