Reid's Heirs
Publisher: Merlin Books Ltd
Published: April 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780863034954
Subjects: Biography/Autobiography
Description: James Simms Wilson was born in 1893, at Charlton, England, the first child of James Edward and Eleanor Elizabeth Simms Wilson. He married Victoria Barnes in 1917. They had three daughters. He was the last of a family line of renowned optical instrument makers and was absorbed in the development of the microscope business. After his retirement in 1954, he became of diocesan reader of the Church of England. He died in 1976.