The Rt Rev George Howard Wilkinson DD; Truro. Issue 895. (First edition before the bound volumes.)
London: Vanity Fair, 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27cm (15.75 x 10.6 inches). Very Good. Dated December 26, 1885. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce.
George Howard Wilkinson, DD (1 May 1833 – 1 December 1907) was Bishop of Truro 1883-1891 and then of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane 1893-1907. He was Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1904, until his death. Wilkinson was born on 1 May 1833 and educated at Durham School and Oriel College, Oxford. He embarked on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Kensington after which he held incumbencies at Seaham Harbour, Auckland, Soho and Eaton Square, a parish in a wealthy part of London, before elevation to the Episcopate in 1883. The founder of the Community of the Epiphany (1883), he died on 1 December 1907. Item #18-1102
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