Lord Wilson of Tillyorn

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Post-governorship

After his governorship and the elevation to a life peerage with the title Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, of Finzean in the District of Kincardine and Deeside and of Fanling in Hong Kong in 1992, Wilson became the chairman of the utility company Scottish Hydro Electric plc. (later Scottish and Southern Energy) in Perth, Scotland between 1993 and 2000. He was appointed a Vice-President of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (1996) and Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen (1997). Wilson was made a Knight of the Thistle in 2000. In 2002, he was appointed Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.