Educated at St Bartholomew’s, Guy’s, and St Thomas’s Hospitals. He was a Member of the Epidemiological Society, and practised at Billingborough, Folkingham, Lincolnshire, where he died in 1867, being succeeded by his son Thomas.

The eldest son of the Rev William Wilkinson, Vicar of South Croxton, Leicestershire; was for five years a pupil of Cass, of Leeds, and then lived for two years with John Shaw, Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, who taught at the Hunterian School of Medicine. In 1825 he went into partnership with Geo