Samuel Charles Wilks (1789–1872) was an evangelical clergyman of the Church of England, known as a journalist.
[1][2] Wilks took holy orders, being ordained deacon in 1813, and priest in 1814, by Richard Beadon.
He was curate at Norton Malreward, Chew Stoke and Exeter St Martin.
[1] Wilks continued to edit the Christian Observer until 1850, when he was succeeded by John William Cunningham, and resided at the living of Nursling, near Southampton, to which he had been presented in 1847.
[1] While an undergraduate Wilks won in 1813 the premium of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge for an Essay on the Signs of Conversion and Unconversion in Ministers of the Church, which was published in 1814, and reached a third edition in 1830.