Ruth Wilkinson QSM (née Webb, 8 February 1901 – 14 December 1985) was a community leader and local historian in New Zealand.
[1] Wilkinson was born on 8 February 1901 in Rotorua, the youngest of five children of Mary Wilson and her husband, Seth Webb, a blacksmith.
[1] In 1947 Wilkinson's husband Kenneth was elected mayor of Cambridge, holding the position until 1953 and again from 1956 to 1962.
In 1960 she became a justice of the peace and in 1963 she was appointed as an organiser of the Halls of Residence Campaign for the new University of Waikato.
In the 1920s and 1930s she wrote short stories on family life for the New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Weekly News.