William Martin Wilkinson

William Martin Wilkinson
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Born	1814
Died	1897
Residence	New West End, Hampstead, N 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields; and Edgware, N. [1867]
Society Membership membership ASL ordinary fellow left 1869.05.04 resigned elected_ASL 1865.06.06 societies Swedenborg Society

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William Martin Wilkinson
(1814-1897): Swedenborgian, spiritualist and charity campaigner
 Family
According to Wilkinson (1911, p. 1), William was the second oldest of eight children born to his  parents, John James and Harriet Wilkinson. His father came ultimately of Danish stock and descended from a professional family, whose arms (originally granted to one Lawrence Wilkinson in 1615) still figure in the Town Hall of the City of Durham. John James Wilkinson was a ‘special pleader ’1, and in that capacity numbered at one time five Judges among his former pupils; he was also for many years himself Judge of the Palatine County Court in his native city, holding his jurisdiction from the Prince Bishops of that day. Mrs. Wilkinson (née Robinson), originally from Sunderland, had among her ancestors the Penn family, from whom came the founder of Pennsylvania.
William was most likely born in Acton Street, off Gray’s Inn Lane, London, where his older brother,
John James Garth Wilkinson, had been born in 1812. His parents later moved from Acton Street to a  better house in the New Road, No. 8 Seymour Place, opposite to where New St Pancras Church now stands, but which at that time was a region of nursery gardens, extending nearly from Battle Bridge (now King’s Cross) to Tottenham Court Road
William Martin Wilkinson (1814–1897) was a solicitor practising, like Dickens’s sinister Tulkinghorn in Bleak House (1852–1853), from an address in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. He threw himself into the [Swedenborg] Society’s affairs with
enthusiasm and efficiency and held the office of Secretary from 1842 to 1860. 

Publications

External Publications

Spirit Drawings: a personal narrative Unknown Binding – 1864
by William Martin Wilkinson

The Spiritual Magazine EDITOR

The Cases of the Welsh Fasting Girl & her father. On the possibility of long-continued abstinence from food. ... With supplementary remarks by J. J. G. Wilkinson. Third edition, etc Unknown Binding – 1870

A contribution to the history of the origin of the Charity Organization Society Unknown Binding – 1875
by William Martin Wilkinson

Days in Falkenberg. A record of sport in Sweden ... Second edition by William Martin Wilkinson (1886)

A pastoral letter to the members of the Swedenborg Society by William Martin Wilkinson (1861)