Search results
Alexander Joseph Patrick Wilson (24 October 1893 – 4 April 1963) was an English writer, spy and MI6 officer. He wrote under the names Alexander Wilson, Geoffrey Spencer, Gregory Wilson, and Michael Chesney. After his death, his family discovered that he had been a serial polygamist who had lied to many people.
It was a very rich one. Born in Dover, Kent, to an Irish mother and an English army officer father, Alexander Wilson spent his childhood following his father to Mauritius, Singapore, Hong Kong and ...
- Terry Kirby
Alexander Wilson was an English writer, spy and MI6 officer. Under his own name and the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Spencer, Gregory Wilson, and Michael Chesney, he penned 24 novels between 1928 and 1940. He wrote a further four unpublished novels and his last spy short story was published in a Faber & Faber collection My Best Spy Story in 1955.
- (393)
- April 4, 1963
- October 24, 1893
Learn more about the extraordinary life of Alexander Wilson, as depicted in Mrs. Wilson on MASTERPIECE on PBS, with our ultimate timeline of the spy and author.
- Masterpiece
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. Alexander Joseph Patrick Wilson (24 October 1893 – 4 April 1963) was an English writer, spy and MI6 officer. He wrote under the names Alexander Wilson, Geoffrey Spencer, Gregory Wilson, and Michael Chesney. After his death, his family discovered that he had been a serial polygamist who had lied to many people.
Dec 12, 2018 · 11 December 2018. By Sam Wilson,BBC News. BBC. Ruth Wilson played her real-life grandmother, Alison Wilson, in the BBC drama Mrs Wilson. BBC One's Mrs Wilson - in which the actress Ruth...
Read an exclusive Q&A with Alexander Wilson biographer Tim Crook, and learn more about the mysterious life of Wilson and his families.
