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John Lawton Wilkinson (born 1953) is a contemporary English poet. From 1972 to 1975, he studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge , United Kingdom, where he founded, with Charlie Bulbeck and Charles Lambert , the Blue Room, a society devoted to the propagation of poetry and the other fine arts.
John Richard Wilkinson (July 3, 1945 – January 11, 2013) [1] was an American singer and guitarist best known for performing with Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and The Greenwood County Singers in 1964. [2] After Wilkinson once performed on a television show in Los Angeles, he received a phone call from Elvis who asked him to join his TCB Band. He ...
John Wilkinson (1780–1796), American colonist, first son of James Wilkinson John Gardner Wilkinson (1797–1875), English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist John Wilkinson (Syracuse pioneer) (1798–1862), lawyer and first postmaster, named the Syracuse city, son of the colonist
Wilkinson was born in Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire. His father was a Westmoreland clergyman, the Reverend John Wilkinson, an amateur enthusiast for antiquities. Wilkinson inherited a modest income from his early-deceased parents. Sent by his guardian to Harrow School in 1813, he later went up to Exeter College, Oxford in 1816. [1]
He was born John Donald Wilkinson in 1929 [4] to The Revd Donald Frederick Wilkinson, Vice Principal of the Bishop's College, Cheshunt [6] and Hilda Mary Wilkinson (née Smyth and herself the daughter of a clergyman). [1] He spent his early childhood near Rye, in Sussex until the age of ten, when he went to Dragon School in Oxford. [1]
Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961) is an African-American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020).
Tom Wilkinson, the Emmy-winning actor who starred in the 1997 film The Full Monty and reprised his role in the 2023 sequel TV series, has died. He was 75. Wilkinson passed away on Saturday at his ...
John Francis Nicholas Wilkinson (c. 1832 – October 5, 1912) was a librarian at the Library of Congress. Wilkinson was an African-American who worked his way up from a custodial position to working as an assistant law librarian at the Law Library of Congress. He is noted as the Library of Congress's longest serving employee, with over 55 years ...