Joseph Wilkinson (1868-1921)
Joseph Wilkinson (1868-1921)
1921 Obituary [1]
JOSEPH WILKINSON was born at Evenwood, Co. Durham, in 1868.
At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to Cox, Walker and Co., Darlington, and was a student in the Darlington Technical School during the same period.
Two years later he went to J. H. Holmes and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, and continued his studies at the Durham College of Science until 1888, when he was appointed electrical engineer to the Transatlantic Co. of Cadiz and Barcelona.
During 1890-1891 he supervised the electrical equipment of Chilian war vessels then under construction at Birkenhead, afterwards joining the staff of Siemens Brothers and Co.
He was next appointed chief assistant to the resident engineer for the equipment of electric tramways at Hobart, Tasmania, and on the completion of the work became resident engineer for Siemens Brothers in the equipment of the Blackburn tramways.
In 1899 he was transferred to Hull, becoming assistant engineer to the Corporation in 1901, and Tramways Engineer in 1903.
In 1919 he left the service of the Corporation and commenced business on his own account as consulting engineer, practising as such at the time of his death, which took place on 7th July 1921, at the age of fifty-three.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1907.