Ernest Wilton

Sir Ernest Colville Collins Wilton, KCMG (* February 6, 1870 in Singapore, † December 28 1952 in Ashington ) was a British diplomat and 1927-1932 President of the Government Commission of the League of Nations mandate Saar.

His parents were both naturalized British, the father a native of Denmark and the Dutch-born mother. In 1890, he joined the British Diplomatic Service for China and remained in that for the next 30 years. For his service in the British missions to Tibet and the related negotiations with China, he was admitted in 1904 with the rank of Companion in the St. -Michaels- and - St. George's Order. During the First World War, working as Consul General in various Chinese cities, it was used after 1919 in Europe. He belonged to 1919/20, at the Allied Arbitration Commission for Polish- Czechoslovak border war at the border town of Cieszyn. From 1920 he was British ambassador in Lithuania and special envoy in Estonia and Latvia. Subsequently, he was promoted in 1923 in St. Michael's and St. George's Order in the rank of Knight Commander. 1923 to 1926 he was a member of an international commission to Chinese salt trade before he was in 1927 appointed President of the Governing Commission of the Saar Basin. In 1932 he resigned from this office for health reasons to retire.