Item K/PP178/6/2/20 - Accounts, 1990-1993, of the lives of Wilkins’ ancestors

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K/PP178/6/2/20

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Accounts, 1990-1993, of the lives of Wilkins’ ancestors

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  • 1990 - 1993 (Creation)

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1 file

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Typescript annotated accounts of the lives of Wilkins’ ancestors, including William Mortimer Wilkins (Wilkins’ great-grandfather), William Wilkins (Wilkins’ grandfather), Eliza Wilkins (Wilkins’ great-aunt), Mary Hutton Wilkins (Wilkins’ grandmother) and Edgar Henry Wilkins (Wilkins’ father). Aspects of these accounts were used in chapter 1, ‘DistantShores’, in Wilkins’ autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003)

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A significant portion of the collection items are available online in the Maurice Wilkins and Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit archive hosted by the Wellcome Library.

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