Thomas George Wilson FRCSI FRCSE FRCS FACS FRSM MRIA HRHA (1 July 1901 – 6 November 1969) was an eminent Anglo-Irish surgeon and medical administrator specialising in otorhinolaryngology, a field to which he made significant contributions. Wilson was also an accomplished author, artist and sailor. He was known as "T.G." and was a leading figure in Dublin society until his sudden death in 1969.
In the Second World War, he served with MI9, a secret branch of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence. He was the organiser of an escape and evasion organisation in Ireland, known to officials as the 'Escape Club', to ferry stranded Royal Air Force personnel from the Curragh Camp, in neutral Ireland across the border back to the UK.
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Early life and education
Wilson was born at Maryville Park in Belfast on 1 July 1901 to Robert Charles Wilson, a stockbroker and nephew of Walter Henry Wilson, founding partner of Harland and Wolff, and Frances Lucinda Kellett, of distant kin to Sir Henry Kellett. He had two other siblings, an elder brother Charles Herbert, and a younger sister, Frances Edna, who went on to marry Sir Charles Read.