WILSON, ISAAC (1840-1901), who was born at Ambleside, Westmoreland, England, arrived in Lyttelton in 1854, and with his brother Thomas took up farming at Kaiapoi. In 1862 he started a passenger coach service between Kaiapoi and Christchurch, and in 1879 he was one of the 12 purchasers of the Kaiapoi woollen mills, of which he was chairman of directors until 1883. Wilson sat as member for Mandeville in the Canterbury Provincial Council (1874-75) and as member for Kaiapoi in the House of Representatives (1881-84). He was chairman of the Eyreton road board and a member of the Kaiapoi borough council. He acquired a large farming property in Taranaki in the seventies. He died on 9 Nov 1901.

Cycl. N.Z., iii, vi, 214.

Reference: Volume 2, page 263

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