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Thomas Wilkinson (bishop of Zululand)

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Diocese
  
Zululand

Name
  
Thomas Wilkinson


Role
  
Bishop of Zululand

Died
  
1914, Khartoum, Sudan

Province
  
Anglican Church of Southern Africa

Books
  
A Suffolk Boy in East Africa

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

He was born in 1837, and educated at Bury St Edmunds, King's College London and Jesus College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1861, after a curacy at St Mary, Cavendish he was Vicar of Rickinghall. In 1870 he became the inaugural Bishop of Zululand, a post he held until 1880. On his return to England he was Vicar of St Michael Caerhays then Coadjutor Bishop of London for North and Central Europe. He died on 22 October 1914.

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