Wilkinson, Stephen Austin 1919- England Cambridgeshire, Eversden near Caxton
organist, choirmaster, studied singing at the Cathedral Choir School Oxford and St Edward's School Oxford, MA and MB from Queens College Cambridge, organ scholar of Queens College, studied singing with George Parker and harpsichord with Boris Ord, 12.jun.1941 enlisted as Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, 1947-1952 director of a Hertfordshire rural music school, 1950 residing at Robins Hill, St John's Road in Hitchin Hertfordshire, 1953 conductor with the BBC, 1962-2002 conductor of the BBC Northern Singers, 1970-2009 conductor of the William Byrd Singers ; son of reverend G A W Wilkinson of Feltwell Rectory Norfolk ; 13.nov.1945 in Sumbo Faroe Islands he married Anna Sofie Dam (born Sumbo Faroe Islands)