Sir Ernest Colville Collins Wilton, KCMG (6. February 1870 in Singapore -- 28. December 1952 in Ashington) was a British diplomat and 1927-1932 as President of the Commission for the Government of the Saar Basin under the League of Nations mandate.
His parents were both naturalized British, the Danish-born mother and father born in the Netherlands. In 1890 he joined the British diplomatic service in China and remained in this for the next 30 years. For his service in the British missions to Tibet and the related negotiations with China in 1904 as he was appointed Companion in the Order of St. Michael and St. George. During the World War I, he continued serving in various diplomatic and customs posts in China. He returned to Europe in 1919 and served as one of the Allied Arbitration Commission for 1919/20 Polish-Czechoslovak border war to the border town Cieszyn (or Teschen). Subsequently, he was successively a British envoy in all three Baltic States. Subsequently, he was in 1923 was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael's and St. George. From 1923 to 1926, he was a member of an International Commission to the Chinese Salt Trade before he was in 1927 appointed President of the Commission for the Government of the Saar Basin. In 1932 he resigned from that office to retire for health reasons.
Dix Noonan Webb: Wilton's Biography.[1]