Henry Wilson (1838–77)

Irish ophthalmic surgeon. Illegitimate son of William Robert Wills Wilde, who trained him as an oculist. FRCS, Ireland, 1865. Surgeon to the Dublin Artillery. Principal surgeon, St Mark’s Ophthalmic Hospital, Dublin. Professor of ophthalmic and aural surgery, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, 1872. Author of Lectures on the theory and practice of the ophthalmoscope (1868).