of the Royal Academy of Belgium (1973), Vice President of the Royal Historical Society (1981–1986). He received honorary degrees from the University of Cambridge, the University of Groningen (1964), and the University of Louvain (1977). Personal life Wilson married Angela Marshman, a solicitor's secretary, on 21 October 1939. Together they had one daughter. The couple divorced, and Wilson subsequently married Alena Emilie Horesovska, a school teacher from Czechoslovakia, on 23 March 1972. During the postwar period, Wilson was a political conservative. He died on 1 August 1991 in Sydney, Australia. Publications Charles Wilson, Anglo-Dutch commerce & finance in the eighteenth century Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1941. Charles Wilson, The history of Unilever. A study in economic growth and social change. 2 vols. London: Cassell & Company, 1954. Ed. Cassell 1970: Charles Wilson, Profit and power and mercantilism, 1957 Charles Wilson, England's apprenticeship, 1603–1763, London: St. Martin's Press, 1965. Charles Wilson, The Age of Expansion: Europe and the World, 1559–1660 (ed. H. Trevor Roper, 1968) Charles Wilson, The Dutch Republic and the Civilisation of the Seventeenth Century (1968) Charles Wilson, The Transformation of Europe, 1558–1648 (1976) Charles Wilson, Introduction to the Sources of European Economic History, 1500–1800 (with G. Parker, 1977) Charles Wilson, Cambridge Economic History of Europe, vols. 4 and 5 (with E. E. Rich) (1967, 1977) Charles Wilson, New Cambridge Modern History, vols. 7 and 11 (1957, 1962) Charles Wilson, Australia, 1788–1988: the Creation of a Nation (1987) See also Business history References 1914 births 1991 deaths People from Market Rasen Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge 20th-century Royal Navy personnel Academic staff of the European University Institute Fellows of the British Academy English expatriates in Australia Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge 20th-century English historians People educated at De Aston School Business historians