sentences:  Wilson was born in 1857 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, son of John Wilson, a chemist from West Park.He attended Harrogate College and whilst one online biography in addition lists the University of Oxford, other biographies suggest that as a young man, he worked in the woollen trade in Bradford before going to Paris and Lille, aged about 18.He emigrated to New Zealand on the "Otaki", which reached Port Chalmers on 24 December 1879.