death_date children constituency_mp nationality birth_date term_end death_place term_start spouse image name occupation caption relations predecessor parliament birth_place party office successor article_title
28 september 1987 ian wilson sturt australian 3 september 1900 30 june 1944 29 may 1954 31 october 1966 adelaide , south australia 1 july 1938 10 december 1949 10 december 1955 elizabeth bonython -lrb- lady elizabeth wilson cbe -rrb- keith wilson-1950-an23530385 . jpg sir keith wilson politician sir keith cameron wilson , 1950 sir john lavington bonython -lrb- father-in-law -rrb- '' new seat '' norman makin australian adelaide , south australia united -lrb- 1944 -- 1966 -rrb- australia party -lrb- 1938 -- 1944 -rrb- liberal senator for south australia norman makin ian wilson keith wilson -lrb- politician -rrb-

keith wilson -lrb- politician -rrb-

sir keith cameron wilson -lrb- 3 september 1900 -- 28 september 1987 -rrb- was a lawyer and australian politician , sitting in both houses of federal parliament .
born 3 september 1900 in adelaide , a son of lawyer a. t. k. wilson -lrb- died 15 august 1925 -rrb- and his wife lilian -lrb- née laurence -rrb- , he attended st peter 's collegiate school , adelaide , and studied law at the university of adelaide .
his grandfather , c. a. wilson , and great-grandfather , thomas wilson , were also lawyers who practised in south australia .
in 1930 he married elizabeth -lrb- betty -rrb- hornabrook bonython -lrb- 25 january 1907 -- 25 september 2008 -rrb- , born in adelaide , the eldest daughter of adelaide `` advertiser '' editor , and lord mayor of adelaide , sir john lavington bonython -lrb- 1875 -- 1960 -rrb- and his first wife blanche ada bray -lrb- 1881 -- 1908 -rrb- .
in the australian federal election , 1934 he was , with j. l. price , nominated by the liberal and country league for the seat of boothby .
price was the winning candidate .
in the australian federal election , 1937 , keith was elected a senator for south australia for the united australia party , serving from 1938 to 1944 .
in 1940 he joined the army , continuing to serve in the senate .
he was not re-elected in 1943 , so when his term ended , he went on active service and became a `` rat of tobruk '' , serving with the 2/7th field regiment , royal australian artillery , in north africa , and subsequently in borneo .
after his return , he stood in the 1949 election for the liberal party of australia -lrb- which had absorbed the uap in 1944 -rrb- as its candidate in the newly created seat of sturt , and won .
he held sturt until his defeat by labor 's norman makin in 1954 .
a redistribution ahead of the 1955 election saw most of sturt 's labor-friendly territory shifted to newly created bonython , which made sturt notionally liberal .
makin opted to contest bonython , and wilson retook sturt on a large swing .
he held the seat until his retirement in 1966 which resulted in his son , ian , gaining preselection for the seat , which he subsequently won and held for over 20 years .
elizabeth was very active in community affairs , and served on the boards of a number of organisations .
in recognition of her activities , she was appointed a member of the order of the british empire -lrb- mbe -rrb- in 1946 , and elevated to commander of the order -lrb- cbe -rrb- in 1959 .
keith wilson was knighted on 1 january 1966 .
he died in adelaide on 28 september 1987 .
lady wilson turned 100 years old on 25 january 2007 ; she died on 25 september 2008 , aged 101 .
