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Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx
Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx (born 12 January 1916), née Baldwin, is an English poet, best known as the widow of former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
==Biography==
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 Year's Day, 1940. She and Wilson had two sons, Robin (born 1943) and Giles (born 1948).〔Dermot Englefield, Janet Seaton, Isobel White, "Facts About the British Prime Ministers", Cassell, 1995, p. 314.〕
In 1970 her volume of poetry, ''Selected Poems'', was published. It was generally assumed that she owed her subsequent success as a poet to her position as the Prime Minister's wife. Nevertheless, her name was at one time mentioned as a possibility for the next Poet Laureate. In 1976 Wilson was one of three judges of the Man Booker Prize, the other judges being Walter Allen and Francis King. According to the DNB entry for Harold Wilson, written by Roy Jenkins,〔()〕 Mary Wilson was not too happy with life as a "political" wife. It was this detachment which gave the ''Private Eye'' spoof ''Mrs Wilson's Diary'', the supposed diary of Mary Wilson, written in the style of the BBC's daily radio serial ''Mrs Dale's Diary'', a spurious look of authenticity.
Mary was widowed on 24 May 1995 when Harold died of colorectal cancer and Alzheimer's disease after 10 years of illness. They had been married for 55 years. As of 2007 she lived in Westminster, a short distance away from Downing Street.〔(The truth about Harold Wilson )〕 She also retains the couple's holiday home in the Isles of Scilly.〔(Objective One Media Release 7 October 2005 )〕 Having passed her 99th birthday in January 2015, she is the oldest living spouse of a former British Prime Minister, the last to have lived twice at separate periods as wife of a serving Prime Minister, and the longest lived Prime Minister's spouse on record.
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