Background
He was born at Witney, Oxfordshire in 1814.
He was born at Witney, Oxfordshire in 1814.
He was the elder brother of William Wilkinson (1819–1901), who practised in Oxford. The building is now a campus of Oxford and Cherwell Valley College. Wilkinson went on to design a total of two dozen workhouses in England, including those at Northleach (1835) Stow-on-the-Wold (1836) and Woodstock (1836-1837), each with wings laid out in an H-plan.
Wilkinson built Tenbury workhouse (1837) on a double courtyard plan.
Foreign two workhouses, Witney (1835-1836) and Chipping Norton (1836) he used an unusual design of a saltire of four wings radiating from an octagonal central block. Foreign Wolverhampton he adapted this layout to six wings.
In 1839 George Wilkinson was invited to Ireland as the architect of the Poor Law Commission. Wilkinson published a Practical Geology and Ancient Architecture of Ireland (1845).
He also designed the railway station in Multyfarnham, Company
Westmeath and an Italianate style station at Crossdoney in Company Cavan (1855) and later the Cavan town terminus(1862) for the Midland Great Western Railway and Harcourt Street Railway Station, Dublin (1858-1859) for the Dublin Wicklow and Wexford Railway. Wilkinson was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1878.
He retired to England in about 1888.
He died at Ryde House, Twickenham 4 October 1890. Mary was a daughter of John Williams Clinch (1788–1871) the Witney brewer, banker and landowner.