D.N.48
Arthur Leech-Wilkinson (1899-1964)
No memorial found.
The birth of Arthur Leech Wilkinson was registered 1899/Q2 Taunton.
The marriage of Arthur Leech-Wilkinson to Joan Kingdon was registered 1935/Q4 Chelsea.
List of the biographies of Organists, Composers for Organ and Organ Builders has an entry for Arthur Leech Wilkinson (1899-)
From the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, in a list of record choice programmes is one entitled ‘Personal Choice’ by Arthur Leech-Wilkinson broadcast on the BBC on 15 May 1938 for which the description is “From local West of England radio, a personal choice by a doctor [identified here as an organist and composer, since broadcasting by identified doctors was then thought to constitute unethical advertising]. ...”
The marriage of Arthur Leech-Wilkinson to Janet Elizabeth Coombs at St Mary the Virgin, Bathwick was registered 1950/Q2 Bath.
From the burial order book: Arthur Leech Wilkinson, aged 64, of St Stephens Lodge, Lansdown, Bath, died on 18 Feb 1964, was cremated
and his ashes buried on 24 Feb 1964. In the index and the death registration the surname is as ‘Leech-Wilkinson’.
There was an obituary in the British Medical Journal of 1964 p641.
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