Education
Wilcox was educated at Northampton Grammar School and Street John"s College, Oxford.Ordained in 1955 he began his career with a Curacy at Street Helier, Street Peter (Bishop Andrewes Church) Hammersmith in the Southwark Diocese and was then successively: a Lecturer at Lincoln Theological College. A USPG Missionary in Bangalore. Vicar of Great Gransden.
Canon Residentiary of Derby Cathedral and Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon before ascending to the Episcopate - a post he held from 1986 until 1995.