Robert Wilkinson (English cricketer)

Robert Hindley Wilkinson (1811 – 5 February 1888) was a British academic, and a cricketer with amateur status who was active from 1828 to 1831.

[6][7] They had a son, Edward Obert Hindley Wilkinson, an officer of the 60th Rifles drowned after the battle of Ingogo in 1881.

Lily Forster and her son had to leave, unwillingly, when the Poyntz Stewarts, to whom the property had passed, wished it vacated.

[11][12] Forster had written a piece about the house, the "Rooksnest memoir", by 1894 when he was 15 which mentions Wilkinson as landlord.

[12] Howards End (1910) was his novel about his childhood home; he continued to visit the house into the later 1940s, and he retained the furniture all his life.

[15][16] Another memoir by Forster, from the 1940s and about West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer in Surrey which was his home from 1925, returns to the associations of Rooksnest.