Name R. Wilkinson Role Historian | Died 1941, Izmir, Turkey Resigned May 4, 1922 | |
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Education Trinity College, Cambridge Books A Malay-English Dictionary: (romanised) | ||
R. J. Wilkinson was a late 19th and early 20th century Newcastle bookseller and songwriter, with premises in the Market.
He wrote several songs and in 1886 published a songbook of his own works entitled “A Collection of dialect and other songs”.
One of these songs “Tommy On the Bridge”, in the Geordie dialect, is about one of the local characters Tommy Ferns and appears in Thomas Allan’s Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings published in 1891
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