Thomas Wilkinson (bishop of Zululand)

Thomas Edward Wilkinson (1837−1914) was an Anglican bishop^[2] in the late 19th^[3] and early 20th centuries.

He was born in 1837, and educated at Bury St Edmunds, King's College London and Jesus College, Cambridge.^[4][5] Ordained in 1861, after a curacy at St Mary, Cavendish he was vicar of Rickinghall. In 1870 he became the inaugural ^[6]Bishop of Zululand,^[7] a post he held until 1880. On his return to England he was vicar of St Michael Caerhays then coadjutor bishop of London^[8] for North and Central Europe.^[9] He died on 22 October 1914.^[10][11]

Notes and references

• Venn, John (1954). Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. 2. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-03616-0.