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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 Washington, then in County Durham.He was the fifth child of John Wilkinson and his wife, Margaret Thompson. His mother died soon after his birth and his father in 1704, leaving him to be brought up by his elder brother John, a wool merchant.
Sylvia Jean Wilkinson (born 1940) is an American author. She was born in Durham, North Carolina , United States [ citation needed ] She graduated from Woman's College, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro , in 1962.
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 "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728 – 14 July 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution. He was the inventor of a precision boring machine that could bore cast iron cylinders, such as cannon barrels [ 1 ] and piston cylinders used in the steam ...
Wilkinson, John C.: (1976a) Bio-bibliographical background to the crisis period in the Ibāḍī Imāmate of Oman. Arabian Studies (London), vol. 3 (1976), 137-164. The Ibāḍī imāma. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (London), 39 (1976), 535-551. Islamic water law with special reference to oasis settlement.
John Wilkins FRS (14 February 1614 – 19 November 1672) was an Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher, and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society. [4] He was Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death. Wilkins is one of the few persons to have headed a college at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.
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 ...