WILKINS, GEORGE: Church of Ireland; b. at Dublin July 27, 1858. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1880; M.A., 1884), and was ordered deacon in 1891 and ordained priest in 1894; he was made a fellow of his college in 1891, junior dean in 1892, and tutor and junior proctor in 1893. Since 1900 he has been professor of Hebrew in the University of Dublin, where he was classical lecturer and examiner in 1892, divinity lecturer in 1893, and university preacher in -1895. He has written The Growth of the Homeric Poems (London, 1885); has contributed the volume on Deuteronomy to The Temple Bible (1902); and has edited part of the book of Genesis (chaps. L- iv., xii.-xv.) in unpointed Hebrew (1909).

WILKINSON, GEORGE HOWARD: Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; b. at Oswald House, Durham, England, May 12, 1833; d. at Edinburgh Dec. 11, 1907. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford (B.A., 1855), and was ordered deacon in 1857 and ordained priest in 1858. He was curate of Kensington (1857-59), perpetual curate of Seaham Harbour (1859-63), of Auckland, Durham (1863-67), and of St. Peter's, Great Windmill Street, Westminster (1867-70), and vicar of St. Peter's, Pimlico (1870-83); honorary canon of St. Petroc in Truro Cathedral (1878-83), select preacher at Oxford (1879-81), and proctor of the diocese of London (1880-83). In 1883 he was consecrated bishop of Truro, whence he was translated, in 1893, to the diocese of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane. In 1901 he was chosen primus of the Episcopal Church in Scotland. Among his publications suecial mention may be made of his Instructions in the Devotional Life (London, 1871); Instructions in the Way of Salvation (1872); Lent Lectures (1873); Hin drances and Helps to the Deepening of the Spiritual Life among Clergy and People (1880); Holy Week and Easter (1880); "The Chastening of thetord" (1883); The Communion of Saints: A Help to the Higher Life of Communicants (1883); Some Laws in God's Spiritual Kingdom (1886); The Heavenly Vision (1909); and Invisible Glory; Selected Sermons (1909).

Bibliography: A. J. Mason, Memoir of , eorge Howard Wilkinson, 2 vols., London and New York, 1909.

WILKINSON, THOMAS EDWARD: Anglican bishop for Northern and Central Europe; b: at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Dec. 26, 1837. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge (B.A., 1859); was ordered deacon in 1861 and ordained priest in 1862; was curate at Cavendish, Suffolk (1861-64), and Rickinghall, 'Suffolk. (1864-70); was consecrated bishop of Zululand in the latter year. He traveled extensively in South Africa, and in 1874 visited the Transvaal, his tour resulting in the creation of a new African diocese. He resigned his see of Zululand in 1876; was rector of Caerhayes, Cornwall (1878-82), was chosen in 1886 to be bishop-coadjutor of London for North and Central Europe, his jurisdiction extending over Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Russia. He has also been rector of St. Catherine Coleman, London, since 18$6. In addition to preparing a Zulu translation of selections from 'Hymns Ancient and Modern (Natal, 1874), he has written A Suffolk Boy in East Africa (London, 1875); A Lady's Life in Zululand and the Transvaal (the journal of~his late wife; 1876); Does England wish her Boys and Girls to grow up Atheists and Anarchists? (1894); Emigration the true Solution of the Social Question (1894); Saat, the Slave Boy of Khartoum (1898); and Twenty Years of Continental Work and Travel (1906).