By the Rev. Canon J. EB. Jackson. 235° 
Exeter, his Rector being Mr. Medley, who was afterwards Bishop 
of Fredericton. Mr. Wilkinson was subsequently an Assistant 
Curate at Exmouth, and was presented, in 1848, by Lord Chancellor 
Cottenham, to the Rectory of Broughton Gifford. 
He took a prominent part in Diocesan educational matters, and 
was elected Secretary to the Diocesan Board on the death of Pre- 
centor Heathcote. He was also, from the commencement to his 
death, one of the examiners every year for the Oxford Middle Class 
examinations. At Cheltenham he organized the government of the 
College, in 1862, and was a leading member of the Council. 
As a magistrate for the county of Wilts he was remarkable for 
5 industrious attention to its financial business. He was, indeed, a 
man of varied information, clever, accurate and hard-working. 
Whatever he undertook, he spared no pains to go “ thorough” with 
it. Of our Archeological Society he was an earnest supporter. In 
i vols. iii. and iv. are two papers from his pen: “On Parochial 
_ Histories :” being an elaborate summary of “Heads of Information” 
for the guidance of those who may venture upon that kind of literary 
composition. His suggestions embrace almost every conceivable 
item of topographical enquiry: and, if only carried out in every 
parish, would certainly leave nothing to be desired in the way of 
county history. His instructions to others were followed by an ex- 
ample in the “ History” of his own parish of Broughton Gifford, 
printed in vols. v. and vi. of this Magazine. 
Among other publications we may mention :— 
1847. Translation of the first thirty Psalms of St. Augustine on the Psalms; 
' in the first vol. Library of the Fathers. 
ea Systematic Analysis of Bishop Butler’s Analogy. This reached a second 
edition, 1853; a third, 1872. 
7 1850. Sermon preached at the Visitation of the Archdeacon of Wilts. 
1852, Yopular Education. The National Society. The Two Manchester 
: Schemes. The Committee of Privy Council. 
_ -— Evidence before the Oxford University Commission. In the report of 
9 H. M. Commissioners. 
| 1856. An Article in the Westminster Review, on Military Education for Officers, 
i 1857. A series of Letters and Critique on the Report of the Commissioners on 
f Foreign Military Systems of Education. In the Daily News. 
_ 1861, Prize Essay on the Farming of Hampshire and the [sle of Wight. In 
twenty-second yol. of the Royal Agricultural Society. 
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