George Howard Wilkinson (1 May 1833 – 11 December 1907) was
Bishop of Truro
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1883-1891 and then of
St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane 1893–1907. He was
Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church
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from 1904, until his death.
Life
Wilkinson was born on 1 May 1833 and educated at
Durham School
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and
Oriel College, Oxford
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. He embarked on an ecclesiastical career with a
curacy
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at
Kensington
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after which he held
incumbencies at
Seaham Harbour,
Auckland
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,
Soho
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and
Eaton Square
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, a parish in a wealthy part of London, before elevation to the
episcopate
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in 1883.
The founder of the
Community of the Epiphany (1883), he died on 11 December 1907.
Family
Wilkinson married, on 14 July 1857, Caroline Charlotte Des Vœux, daughter of lieutenant-colonel Benfield Des Vœux, fourth son of
Sir Charles Des Vœux, 1st Baronet; she died on 6 September 1877. They had three sons and five daughters, including Reverend G. G. Wilkinson, and eldest daughter Constance Charlotte Mary Wilkinson, who married in 1902 Reverend Arthur Edward Davies, Chaplain to her father.
Notes
External links
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Project Canterbury
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1833 births
People educated at Durham School
Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
Bishops of Truro
Bishops of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane
19th-century Church of England bishops
19th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops
1907 deaths
20th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops
Primuses of the Scottish Episcopal Church