Charles Wilsonn
Charles Edward Wilsonn (1752 – 14 February 1829) was an English stationer and bookbinder and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1814 to 1818. Family and early life Wilsonn was born in 1752, the youngest son of Robert Wilsonn and his wife Jemima Bell, daughter of John Bell, haberdasher, of Colston Bassett. His father was a printer and stationer of Birchin Lane and Lombard Street, London, and receiver of duties on windows. He was baptised at St Mary's church, Stoke Newington, on 9 July 1752, to which parish the family had moved after the destruction of their home in Exchange Alley by fire in 1748. He was apprenticed to his father, and freed by redemption on 3 May 1774. Career In 1775 Wilsonn went into partnership with his brother Richard in the bookbinding and stationery business. When his brother left the business in 1779, Wilsonn went into partnership with Charles Sinclaire. He also acted as deputy to his father as receiver of window duties. In 1783 he was a Freeman of the Stationers Company, and he also joined the City of London Corporation as common councillor for the Langbourn ward, an office he retained until 1790.