William Wilson (UK politician)
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William Wilson (born 1913) is a retired solicitor and Labour politician in the United Kingdom.
He served in the British Army during World War II in North Africa, Italy and Greece. After the war he made several unsuccessful attempts to win the Leamington and Warwick constituency, before being successful in 1964 in Coventry South, which he represented (later as Coventry South East) until retiring from Parliament in 1983. He also served on Warwickshire County Council, being leader of the Labour Group from 1972 to 1993.
Wilson was responsible for piloting through Parliament the Divorce Reform Act, 1969 which changed the basis for divorce procedures from the old concept of matrimonial offences to that of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage.