South Yorkshire Times, March 9th, 1934
Professor of Biology
Here is a photograph of Professor S. E Wilson M.Sc., PhD., a native of Conisborough, who has won for himself a distinguished position in science and is now Professor of Biology at the Royal Veterinary College.
We gave a short account last week of valuable researches by Professor Wilson into the habits and ravages of the powder-post Beetle, which is responsible for spoiling enormous quantities of felled timber.
Professor Wilson comes of an old Conisborough family which has been for many years engaged in the timber trade. He was taught in the Morley Place School, and the Mexborough Secondary School and took his degrees at Sheffield University. He was one of the earliest pupils to be admitted to the Mexborough Secondary School. He became head prefect and the first pupil to obtain a university degree.
He is still in the sunny forties with a brilliant career apparently before him.
His success with the power-post beetle is leading him, I understand, to tackle the still more formidable problem of the death-watch beetle.