Theodore P. Wilson

Rev. Theodore Percival "Percy" Wilson, often published as Theodore P. Wilson or T. P. Wilson, was an Anglican priest and 19th-century author. Available sources identify him as born in 1819 and deceased on August 8, 1881, and several library and public-domain catalogs connect him with books including Amos Huntingdon, Frank Oldfield, Nearly Lost but Dearly Won, Working in the Shade, and True to his Colours.

He is also noted for his early work in Adelaide, South Australia. Biographical references describe him as a pioneering but brief figure there, and later commentary on his writing portrays him as a producer of pious fiction for boys, which fits the strongly moral and religious tone of the novels still associated with his name.

Because reliable biographical detail appears to be fairly sparse in the sources I could confirm, it is safest to remember him as a clergyman-author whose fiction joined Victorian storytelling with Christian instruction.