Background
WILKINSON, William Farley was born on May 25, 1837. Son of Reverend William Farley Wilkinson, Bachelor of Divinity, Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College Carnb., and grandson of Reverend William Farley Wilkinson, Master of Arts, Justice of the Peace, Vicar of North Walsliam, Norfolk.
Education
Privately; Corpus Christi College Carnb. (scholar); Bachelor of Arts 1861. Master of Arts 1865. Teacher of the Choristers and Precentor of Manchester Cathedral, 1862-1866.
Career
Ordained Deacon, 1863. Priest, 1865, by the Bishop of Manchester. Curate of Saint Stephen’s, Shepherd’s Bush, London, 1866-1869.
Minor Canon of Peterborough Cathedral, 1869-1893.
Precentor, 1870-1875, 18S3-93. Rector of Glinton, Northamptonshire, 1875-1893.
Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, 1887. Rural Dean, Gartree iii., Peterborough, 1908.
Vicar of Bringhurst cum Great Easton and Drayton since 1893. Honourable Canon of Peterborough Cathedral.