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<p>Alter: title. | <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:UCB" class="extiw" title="wp:UCB">Use this bot</a>. <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:DBUG" class="extiw" title="wp:DBUG">Report bugs</a>. | Suggested by Abductive | <a href="/wiki/Category:1808_births" title="Category:1808 births">Category:1808 births</a> | #UCB_Category 615/1380</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}<br /> {{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;David Wilson&#039;&#039;&#039; (1808–1880) worked as a confectioner in [[Calcutta]] and on 18 November 1840 he opened the [[Places of interest in Kolkata#Historic hotels|Auckland Hotel]] at 1-3 Old Court House Road in Calcutta. The hotel was also known as Wilson&#039;s Hotel and changed its name to the [[Great Eastern Hotel (Kolkata)|Great Eastern Hotel]]. It became the most famous hotel in [[India]] and is still functioning today as the Great Eastern Kolkata and is part of the Bharat Hotels Group.&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/she/cid/1422978|title=SHE - Jyotsna Suri talks her brand of hospitality, with FICCI FLO|work=The Telegraph}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> David Wilson came from [[Herefordshire]] and started a bakery at No. 1 Old Court House Street. The bakery was successful as it served the need of the Britishers from the [[East India Company]] who missed their breads and muffins in India. He subsequently bought the No. 2 and then No. 3 in Old Court House Road in 1840 to convert it into a hotel, which he had named after [[George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland|George Eden]], the first Earl of [[Auckland]].&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite book|last=Narayanan|first=Chitra|title=From Oberoi to Oyo: Behind the scenes with the movers and shakers of India&#039;s hotel industry|publisher=Penguin|year=2020|isbn=9780143428374}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == Early &amp; Personal Life ==<br /> Wilson was born in [[Brilley]], [[Herefordshire]] in 1808. He married Mary Mandy (née Rose) in Calcutta in 1838. One of their grandchildren was Lieut [[Boyd Alexander]] the famous African explorer.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}} David&#039;s sister Anne was in Calcutta and married one of David&#039;s friends, also a confectioner, Frederick William Browne in 1840 in Calcutta. Frederick died on 5 October 1864 on board the steamer Persia when it was lost at Sandheads in the great [[cyclone]] of 1864.<br /> <br /> David moved back to England in the 1860s but continued to manage the hotel. Over the ensuing years the hotel moved from strength to strength. In 1863 it became the first hotel in India to be fully electrified. Over the years famous guests have included [[Samuel Clemens]] ([[Mark Twain]]), Nikita Khruskhev and [[Queen Elizabeth II]].<br /> <br /> When David died in 1880 his net worth was over £60,000.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> * Thacker&#039;s Bengal Directories 1864-1884<br /> * David Wilson - Last Will and Testament - Principal Probate Registry Office High Holborn London<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * https://web.archive.org/web/20071011104747/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2217/stories/20050826001608400.htm<br /> * https://web.archive.org/web/20070929055657/http://www.thegrandhotels.net/NewGrandGroup.aspx<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, David}}<br /> [[Category:1808 births]]<br /> [[Category:1880 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Indian hoteliers]]<br /> [[Category:Confectioners]]<br /> [[Category:Businesspeople from Kolkata]]</div>

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