Peter Wilson (auctioneer)
Peter Wilson, CBE, was an English auctioneer and chairman of Sotheby's.[1][2]
Wilson father was Sir Matthew Wilson of Eshton Hall, Gargrave, Yorkshire, England.[2] He was educated at Eton College and at New College Oxford.[2] He worked for British Intelligence during World War II, in London and Washington DC.[2]
He appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 26 September 1966.[3]
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1970, and was made honorary life president of Sotheby's in 1980, when he stood down as chairman.[2]
He died in Paris in 1984, after being in a coma for a week.[2] He was 71.[2]
Wilson is mentioned in the Ian Fleming story "The Property of a Lady", commissioned by Sotheby's for use in their annual journal, The Ivory Hammer,[4] and which was adapted as the auction sequence in the film Octopussy.
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