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            1908 - 1984          
              
              
          Wilson studied science at Cambridge and was an engineer by profession. His interest in ballet was sparked by a visit to see Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in the 1920s and secured when he befriended a young Beryl Grey who introduced him to key figures in the ballet world at that time.
