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In addition to his career as a spy, Wilson was also a successful novelist. Wilson may have been encouraged to write them by the intelligence services to portray themselves as all-powerful, Crook says.

Alison's sons told him that they had been contacted by Elizabeth's son, Douglas Ansdell, and so they had discovered Alec's fourth wife.Crook concludes that Wilson’s spy novels reveal details of intelligence work so precise as to indicate first-hand experience. Wilson's paternal grandfather, Hugh, was born in Winchester in Hampshire, where he married Elizabeth Bracken in 1863. Born in Scotland, Alexander Wilson is regarded as the father of American ornithology. As Alexander Wilson was an intelligence agent, some of the records regarding his work are still classified, so there could be even more to come out about his life in the future. His parents married in 1886 in Hong Kong, and had four children: Isabella Marie, Alec, Harold Francis, and Leonard Arthur. But what Alison didn't realize was that her husband had already been married two times, and was not divorced from either of his other wives, Gladys and Dorothy. ; 549 x 343 mm). Alison telephoned Gladys to inform her of Alec's death and of his other family.Alison Wilson wrote a two-part memoir in an attempt to make sense of her husband's deceptions, lamenting that "he had not only died, he had evaporated into nothing. This commenting section is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page. 1917), En route to British India Wilson met actress Dorothy Phyllis Wick (1893-1965) on the Wilson married Dorothy in Lahore some time in 1928,Wilson succeeded Yusuf Ali as ninth principal of Islamia College in November 1927 and resigned in March 1931.Wilson's biographer, Crook, suggests that his role at Islamia College may have been a cover for work conducted on behalf of British intelligence agencies as a recruiter and informant.While in Lahore Wilson began writing spy novels and received his first contract for In addition, Wilson published two crime thrillers, Wilson wrote "forceful, exciting, thrilling, vibrant, vivid, intriguing, daring" stories, according to reviewers in In total, Wilson wrote and published 24 novels and edited three academic books, aside from four unpublished manuscripts.

To complicate his affairs further, Alex would marry his fourth wife, Elizabeth Hill, when he was still married to Alison. But only a few years into his marriage to Alison, Alexander was fired from the intelligence agency, went to jail twice over, and declared bankruptcy. She may even have conflated two of them," It's one of the key points in which the television program deviates from Alison's real life. 1944). Wilson Pl. "We’ve made this Alison have much more agency, in a way, in going and searching for the truth," Later in her life, Alison earned a degree in divinity and wrote a book on faith, Ruth Wilson's grandfather was a spy, a novelist, a former English professor at the University of Punjab in Lahore, and a serial bigamist, with at least four different wives and seven children. We do know for certain that Alexander Wilson was born in 1893, died in 1963 of a heart attack.

"It’s probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done—I think it’s the hardest role I’ve ever played," Wilson says of her work on the show. In the series, she seeks out her husband's other wives. You may be able to find more information on their web site. In total, he wrote 27 spy novels, some under a pseudonym.

An actor and poet, Michael had changed his name by Crook uncovered Wilson's marriage to Gladys, whose son Dennis told him about the funeral arrangements, and so revealed the marriage to Alison. 131 etched plates after J.G. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. But apart from those facts, it can be difficult to parse which events in his life were fact, and which were fabricated, conceived as part of his cover story.“We don’t know if the marriages were partly–were they for work? "All his wives kept Alec's secrets, maintaining the image of him as a heroic figure for the sake of his children.In 2005 Wilson and Dorothy's son, Michael (then aged 73), asked his son's friend, the journalist and academic Tim Crook, to investigate his father's life. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Here's the true story behind the drama viewers will see on screen.Ruth's grandmother shared the first part of her story with her "I didn’t realize that she’d kept these secrets with her for so many years," Wilson says of her grandmother.

"The multiple marital aspects of her husband's life came to Alison Wilson's notice only after Alec's death in 1963, when she discovered from his papers that his first wife was Gladys.