Dorothy Wilkinson

Dorothy Irene Wilkinson (22 May, 1883 – 18 September, 1947) was a United Kingdom-born Australian headmistress of Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School.

Her mother was Florence (born Shann) and her father, Reverend Christopher George Wilkinson, was to become the headmaster of Launceston Church Grammar School in Tasmania.

[1] Her father was invited to move to Tasmania by Bishop Henry Montgomery in 1899 - where he collected ancient stone tools.

[3] Wilkinson returned to Tasmania and she did some teaching at her father's school.

[1] Wilkinson gave up being the honorary secretary of the Association of Headmistresses when she retired from the school in 1947 and she died later that year in Sydney's Neutral Bay, in an accident, when she fell while getting off a bus.