Claude Wilton (12 February 1919 – 24 September 2008) was a politician, solicitor and civil rights campaigner from Northern Ireland. Claude Wilton, son of Robert McElmunn Wilton, was born in Eden Terrace, Derry City and educated at Foyle College and Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied law for three years. After qualifying as a solicitor, he operated his own practice at Waterloo Place and, later, in Great James' Street in Derry. Wilton retained his Protestant faith, but channeled his activities into the burgeoning Civil Rights activities. He was elected as an officer of the Derry Citizens' Action Committee (DCAC) in late 1968 and called for Protestants in Derry to "stand up and be counted" in regard to the early campaign for civil rights in Northern Ireland. He worked as one of Derry's