Not long after Wilsons retirement, his mental deterioration from Alzheimers disease began to be apparent, and he did not appear in public after 1988 when he unveiled the Clement Attlee statue at Limehouse Library. He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1985, and died a decade later from it in May 1995, at the age of 79.
Not long after Wilsons retirement, his mental deterioration from Alzheimers disease began to be apparent, and he did not appear in public after 1988 when he unveiled the Clement Attlee statue at Limehouse Library. He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1985, and died a decade later from it in May 1995, at the age of 79.
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