Later Life and Death
Wilson was Chairman of the Historic Places Trust 1958–1970, Chairman Board of Trustees National Gallery and Museum 1975–1979 and published "An Outsider Looks Back...Reflections on Experience" in 1982. The Wilsons gave their homestead and bush to the Crown and moved to Wellington in 1972; Mount Lees Reserve is now one of the most important natural areas administered by Manawatu District Council. His wife had already published a biography on her paternal grandparents. They then published a biography for his maternal grandfather, John Davies Ormond, in 1980. Rosamond Wilson was killed in a car crash in late 1980.
Wilson was awarded a CMG in 1979 for services to the community. He died in Bowen Hospital on 17 April 1988, after having suffered a stroke earlier.
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