Background
He was born in Northampton to engineer David Wilkinson and Elizabeth Bliss.
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Robert Wilkinson
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Education
He attended Hanwell College before migrating to Victoria in 1852.
Career
From 1853 he worked for the Castlemaine and Maryborough branches of the Bank of Victoria. Robert Bliss and Annie Louisa Wilkinson are buried directly alongside Alice Georgiana Foss Wilkinson behind Saint Thomas" church in South Strathfield (formerly known as Enfield). In 1880 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Balranald.
A Free Trader, he held his seat until his retirement in 1894.
In 1901 he became managing director of Wilkinson & Lavender, retiring in 1927. Wilkinson died at Strathfield the following year.
