Theodore P. Wilson

Born in England in 1819, Theodore Percival "Percy" Wilson—usually known as T. P. Wilson—later moved with his family to South Australia. He studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, was ordained in the Church of England, and became part of the early colonial religious world linked to Adelaide.

Wilson served as the first headmaster of St Peter's College in Adelaide and also worked as Bishop's Chaplain and as an incumbent in local churches before eventually returning to England. Later in life he held church posts there, including at Pavenham in Bedfordshire, where he died in 1881.

Alongside his clerical work, he wrote fiction. His best-known book was Frank Oldfield, which won a prize sponsored by the Band of Hope and was praised as a popular novel promoting temperance. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found during this search, so none is included here.