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Spenser Wilkinson
(Henry) Spenser Wilkinson (born 1 May 1853 in
Early Life and Education
The second son of Thomas Read Wilkinson, a banker, and his wife Emma Wolfenden, he was born and raised near
In 1880, Wilkinson married Victoria Crowe (1868-1929), daughter of Sir
Career as a Journalist
From 1882 to 1892 he was on the staff of the "
Convinced as early as 1874 that
Academic career
Wilkinson was very well connected to key figures in politics and in the armed forces as he journalist and had long hoped for an academic appointment, as his interests increasingly turned toward historical study. He was elected the first Chichele Professor of Military History in the
Published Writings
* "Essays toward the Improvement of the Volunteer Forces" (1886)
* "The Brain of an Army" (1890), An account of the German general staff
* "Imperial Defense" (1892), with Sir Charles Dilke
* "The Command of the Sea" (1894)
* "The Nation's Awakening" (1896)
* "British Policy in South Africa" (1899)
* "War and Policy" (1900)
* "Britain at Bay" (1909)
* "Hannibal's March through the
* "First Lessons in War" (1914)
* "The French Army before Napoleon" (1915)
* "The Nation's Servants" (1916)
For on-line examples of Wilkinson's writings, see:
* [http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/HISTART/WILK1.html Strategy in the Navy,] "The Morning Post", 3 August 1909. This essay is essentially an attack on the influential British naval theorist Julian Stafford Corbett's interpretation of Clausewitz and on Corbett's influence on the Royal Navy.
* [http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/HISTART/KillingNoMurder.htm Killing No Murder: An Examination of Some New Theories of War,] "Army Quarterly" 14 (October 1927). This is a bitingly critical response to
ources
* William Archer, "Real Conversations" (London, 1904)
* John B. Hattendorf, "The Study of War History at Oxford" in Hattendorf and Malcolm H. Murfett, eds., "The Limitations of Military Power" (1990).
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* A. J. A. Morris, "Wilkinson, (Henry) Spencer (1853-1937)" in " [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". (2004)
Wilkinson's Papers are located at the
For an extended discussion of Wilkinson, see
* [http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/Bassford/Chapter9.htm#Wilkinson Chapter 9,] "Major British Military Writers," and [http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/Bassford/Chapter15.htm#Wilk Chapter 15,] section "Wilkinson on Liddell Hart and Clausewitz," in
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