George Howard Wilkinson was Bishop of Truro[1] and then of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane,[2] in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th. He was born on 1 May 1833 and educated at Durham School and Oriel College, Oxford[3] and then 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,[4] before elevation to the Episcopate. The founder of the Community of the Epiphany (1883)[5] he died on 1 December 1907.[6]
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Preceded by Edward White Benson |
Bishop of Truro 1883 –1891 |
Succeeded by John Gott |
Preceded by Charles Wordsworth |
Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane 1893–1907 |
Succeeded by Charles Edward Plumb |
Preceded by James Butler Knill Kelly |
Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church 1904–1907 |
Succeeded by Walter John Forbes Robberds |
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