Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx


Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx , ne Baldwin, is an English poet, best known as the widow of former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. She is the only spouse of a British PM to become a centenarian.

She was born in Diss, Norfolk, the daughter of Reverend Daniel Baldwin, who was a Congregationalist minister. She attended boarding school at Milton Mount College near Crawley, leaving in 1932 to attend a secretarial course in Cumbria for two years. She was employed as a shorthand typist at Lever Brothers in Port Sunlight before marrying Harold Wilson on New Years Day, 1940. She and Wilson had two sons, Robin and Giles .

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