The man appointed to succeed the much lamented Sir Edward Youde, was Sir David Wilson, another Foreign Office official. David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, KT, GCMG, PASE (born 1935) is a retired British administrator, diplomat and Sinologist. Lord Wilson of Tillyorn was the penultimate Commander-in-Chief and 27th Governor of Hong Kong from 1987 to 1992.