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unusual facts about Wallace G. Wilkinson


Viola Davis Brown

Governor Wallace Wilkinson appointed Brown to be the Project Coordinator of the Governor’s Interdisciplinary Task force on Nursing Shortages in 1988.


Book of Negroes

Notable people recorded in the Book of Negroes include Boston King, Henry Washington, Moses Wilkinson and Cato Perkins.

BYU Division of Continuing Education

In establishing the center, Ernest L. Wilkinson, president of BYU, and Joseph Fielding Smith, chairman of the executive committee of the BYU Board of Trustees, sent a letter in which they emphasized that the institution was geared toward adult continuing education programs and not meant at all to compete with Weber Junior College.

Cosmo the Cougar

Cosmo became immediately popular, and since Gallego many people have been Cosmo, including BYU president Ernest L. Wilkinson, who once put on the costume at a pep rally.

Emily Bancker

Later in the year Bancker joined Charles Frohman's comedy company playing one of the two widows (the other Georgiana Drew) in the Bisson-Carre-Gillette farce, Mr. Wilkinson's Widows.

George Wilkinson

George Alfred "Teddy" Wilkinson, part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and on the roll of honour at the Valençay SOE Memorial

Kate Pickett

She co-authored (with Richard G. Wilkinson) The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better and is Director of The Equality Trust.

Lee Oakes

Lee Oakes (born 1974) is an English actor best known for his role as Munch Wilkinson in the British comedy Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and as Kev in the British television series After You've Gone a fellow builder and best mate of Jimmy Venables portrayed by Nicholas Lyndhurst.

Martin B. Hickman

Hickman first became dean of the College of Social Sciences at BYU in 1970, not long before the end of the Ernest L. Wilkinson administration.

Morton S. Wilkinson

He served in the United States Senate from March 4, 1859 to March 4, 1865, as a Republican from Minnesota, in the 36th, 37th and 38th congresses, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection.

National Council of American Indians

The organization's records, which were discovered in the papers of Attorney Ernest L. Wilkinson, are held by the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University.

Neohumanism

Recently, various studies have been conducted with results that endorse the tremendous importance of having a more equitable society (see, for example, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate Pickett).

Norman Carling

Norman Carling (1902–1971) was an English designer/modeller in ceramics, who created a large number of Art Deco models and joined Maling pottery in 1935 from the firm of A.J. Wilkinson, a company which also employed Clarice Cliff.

Pilot ACE

After Turing left NPL (in part because he was disillusioned by the lack of progress on building the ACE), James H. Wilkinson took over the project and Harry Huskey helped with the design.

Richard G. Wilkinson

He is best known for his book with Kate Pickett The Spirit Level, first published in 2009, which claims that societies with more equal distribution of incomes have better health, fewer social problems such as violence, drug abuse, teenage births, mental illness, obesity, and others, and are more cohesive than ones in which the gap between the rich and poor is greater.

Richard Wilkinson

Richard G. Wilkinson (born 1943), researcher in the field of public health

Twosret

Twosret constructed a Mortuary temple next to the Ramesseum, but it was never finished and was only partially excavated (by Flinders Petrie in 1897), although recent re-excavation by Richard H. Wilkinson shows it is more complex than first thought.


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