Paget Wilkes

In addition to extensive mission work in Japan, and touring South East Asia, he wrote a number of penetrating expositions of Christian scriptures.

He was and brought up in Little Walsingham where his father, an austere evangelical from Yorkshire, was headmaster of the Grammar School and also vicar of West Barsham.

She was vivacious and nicknamed "y Deryn" for her lovely singing voice, while Wilkes was heavy and serious, a contrast that was too marked to make for harmony.

[1] Paget Wilkes and his elder brother Lewis were initially taught at home in an environment of strict simplicity and discipline.

Their mother died when Paget was thirteen and following the remarriage of his father in 1886, the family home became a centre for highly religious spinsters.

The work of the JEB, now known as JCL, has led to the establishment of the Kansai Bible College in Kobe and over 150 churches in Japan.

He travelled via Moscow and the Trans-Siberian Railway and reported floods at Karuizawa, the convention at Arima Onsen and a tour which included Kōfu, Yamanashi Nagasaki, Fukuoka and Nakatsu.

In 1926 Wilkes and his wife were back in England and then visited his sister Mary Dunn Pattison, then leading a Christian group at Chalet Point du Jour near Geneva.