David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn

The Right Honourable The Lord Wilson of Tillyorn KT GCMG FRSE
Official portrait, 2019
27th Governor of Hong Kong
In office 9 April 1987 – 3 July 1992
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Chief Secretary	Sir David Ford
Preceded by	Edward Youde
Succeeded by	Chris Patten
Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
In office 11 April 2010 – 20 July 2011
Preceded by	George Reid
Succeeded by	The Lord Selkirk of Douglas
President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
In office 3 September 2008 – 4 July 2011
Preceded by	Michael Atiyah
Succeeded by	John Arbuthnott
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 15 July 1992 – 12 February 2021 Life Peerage
Academic positions Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen In office 6 June 1997 – 6 January 2013 Preceded by Sir Kenneth Alexander Succeeded by Queen Camilla Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge In office 1 January 2002 – 3 March 2008 Preceded by John Meurig Thomas Succeeded by Adrian Dixon
Personal details
Born	David Clive Wilson (1935-02-14) 14 February 1935 (age 89) Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Nationality	British
Spouse	Natasha Helen Mary Alexander ​ ​ (m. 1967)​
Children	2, including Peter Wilson
Education	Trinity College, Glenalmond
Alma mater	Keble College, Oxford (MA) University of London (PhD) University of Hong Kong (diploma)
Profession	Colonial administrator, diplomat, sinologist
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	衛奕信
Simplified Chinese	卫奕信
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wèi Yìxìn Yue: Cantonese Jyutping wai6 jik6 seon3

David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, KT, GCMG, FRSE (Chinese: 衛奕信, born 14 February 1935) is a retired British administrator, diplomat and Sinologist. He was the penultimate Commander-in-Chief and 27th Governor of Hong Kong (from 1987 to 1992). He served as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the British Monarch's representative to the Assembly, in 2010 and 2011. He is also one of the two living former governors of Hong Kong with Chris Patten. He retired from the House of Lords on 12 February 2021 after sitting as a crossbencher for over 28 years.^[1]