Mr John Wilkinson

Place of birth:

Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England

Parliamentary activity

Information about members' parliamentary service including their positions held and biography.

Positions
PositionStartEndPeriodNotes
Member for Albury Tue 17 July 1894Fri 05 July 189511 months 19 days
Elections and Qualifications Committee No.2 Wed 31 August 1892Wed 31 August 18921 day
Wagga Wagga School of Arts Enabling Bill Committee No.24 Thu 26 November 1891Wed 09 December 189114 days
Conditional Purchase made by Anne Nash O’Brien, at Corowa Committee No.21 Wed 16 September 1891Tue 15 March 18926 months
Albury Mechanics Institute Enabling Bill Committee No.6 Thu 30 July 1891Thu 06 August 18918 daysChairman
Member for Albury Fri 19 June 1891Mon 25 June 18943 years 7 days
Ryan’s Conditional Purchases at Wagga Wagga Committee No.17 Tue 03 June 1890Thu 18 December 18906 months 16 days
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly Sat 02 February 1889Fri 05 July 18956 years 5 months 4 days
Member for Albury Sat 02 February 1889Sat 06 June 18912 years 4 months 5 days
Biography

Local Government activity

Mayor in 1896

Personal information

Son of Dr Henry Wilkinson, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, medical practitioner of London.

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Lawyer (solicitor). Arrived in Sydney as a boy in a ship of which father was a doctor. Father practised in Bathurst, Lambing Flat, Albury and Sale, where he died in 1865. Family returned to Albury where school was attended. Articled to Joseph Dwyer and admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales and Victoria in 1881. Spent 2-3 years with a leading Sydney firm then practised in Albury; in 1889 was senior partner in firm Wilkinson & Wilkinson. In 1889 was president of the Albury branch of the Australian Natives Association, vice president of Albury Mechanics Institute.

Military service

First and only captain of Albury Reserve Corps, Volunteer Infantry in 1888. After reorganisation of the defence forces in 1889, commanded H. Company., 1st Regiment of Volunteer Infantry; When forces further developed under federal plan, commanded No. 4 battery, Australia Field Artillery and was later was a Colonel.

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