George Charles Silk
1822/3–1910
Private secretary. Clerk at the London Diocesan Church Building Society and Metropolis Churches’ Fund, and assistant to its secretary John Sinclair, archdeacon of Middlesex and vicar of Kensington. A lifelong friend of Alfred Russel Wallace. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1869–78.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1468/257/53)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 23 January 2018)
List of the fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, 1869–79
Post Office London directory 1865–75
Wallace 1905, 1: 32, 73, 325, 409
Williams-Ellis 1966, p. 3.
Bibliography
Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1905. My life: a record of events and opinions. 2 vols. London: Chapman & Hall.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. 1966. Darwin’s moon: a biography of Alfred Russel Wallace. London and Glasgow: Blackie.
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