Bill Wilson is a native of County Durham, now living in Lincolnshire.
He has studied in a number of fields including civil engineering, theology, philosophy, psychology, organisation theory, behavioural science and education. He has practiced professionally as a civil engineer specialising in bridge design; an ordained clergyman with a particular interest in industrial chaplaincy; a lecturer in adult higher education specialising in industrial relations; and finally as a Principal of a Further and Higher Education College.                      
Bill's stories about Jimbo and Conché are the distillation of his reflections on the great virtues of love, joy, sadness, friendship, courage, sacrifice, perseverance and happiness.    

Bill Wilson holds a PhD in history from Charles Darwin University. His interests lie in the history of police, crime, punishment and how policing and the criminal justice system affect the wider social history of a given period.

Although retired, Bill brings his professional historian's eyes to aspects of Beechworth's history.
He is fascinated by the rich history of the Old Beechworth Gaol because it is a microcosm of the early goldfields history in a town that was 'Ultima Thule [the place to the furthest north] of North-eastern Victoria' during the early years of Victoria as an independent colony.