Background
The son of James John Wilkinson (died 1845), a writer on mercantile law and judge of the County Palatine of Durham, he was born in London.
The son of James John Wilkinson (died 1845), a writer on mercantile law and judge of the County Palatine of Durham, he was born in London.
He studied medicine, and set up as a homoeopathic doctor in Wimpole Street in 1834. Attracted by the works of William Blake, he studied the Songs of Experience.
He was also inspired by Emanuel Swedenborg, to the elucidation of whose writings he devoted much of his life. He died at Finchley Road, South Hampstead, where he had lived for nearly fifty years.