WILKINSON, William Cleaver, clergyman, born in Westford, Vermont, 19 October. 1883. He was graduated at Rochester university in 1857, and at the theological seminary there in 1859. In the same year he became pastor of the Wooster place Baptist church, New Haven, Connecticut, and he remained there until 1861, when he resigned, and made an extensive tour in Europe. After spending a year as tutor in modern languages in Rochester university, he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Mount Auburn Baptist church, Cincinnati, Ohio. Resigning this charge in 1866, he opened a school in Tarrytown, New York, where he still resides. In 1872 he was elected to the professorship of homiletics and pastoral theology in Rochester theological seminary, but in 1881 he retired from this office and has since devoted himself to literary work. He is counsellor of the Chautauqua literary and scientific circle, and dean of the department of literature and art in the Chautauqua university. He has also lectured at Wellesley college on English literature. Rochester gave him the degree of D. D. in 1873. Dr. Wilkinson has contributed extensively to periodicals, and has prepared text-books in languages for the Chautauqua university, which have been widely used (1882-'7). His other publications include "The Dance of Modern Society" (New York, 1869)" " A Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters" (1874)" " The Baptist Principle" (Philadelphia, 1881)" "Webster, an Ode" (New York, 1882) ; "Poems " (1883)" and "Edwin Arnold as Poetizer and as Paganizer " (1884).