 After he left Guernsey, he was not permitted to take on private commissions, and his only known work in England is a memorial to Sir Alexander Dickson, erected in Woolwich in 1841, and subsequently moved to the Royal School of Artillery in Larkhill, Wiltshire.Wilson retired to Southampton, where he lived in Cardew Villa, Shirley, Southampton in Hampshire.He died in 1866, the same year as his wife, Ann.