About Hector Wilks
Lived 1919 – 1992 (aged 72–73). Hector Wilks was a British botanist and conservationist.
Hector Mark Wilks (1919, - 1992 ) was an English botanist and conservationist. A retired chartered surveyor, He was also a councillor on the Whitstable Urban District Council. The site near Faversham remains one of only two native sites for the monkey orchid in the British Isles and has remained closed to the public since its discovery. On 21 May 2007, Park Gate Down was renamed "The Hector Wilks Reserve" in recognition of his involvement with the reserve from its inception.
His sister was the teacher Jean Wilks.
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English botanist and conservationist (1919-1992)
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Hector Wilks was born in 1919.
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Hector Wilks died in 1992.
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Hector Wilks was a botanist and conservationist.
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Hector Wilks was British.
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