Ruth Wilkinson

Ruth Wilkinson (née Webb, 8 February 1901 – 14 December 1985) was a community leader and local historian in New Zealand.

Early life Wilkinson was born on 8 February 1901 in Rotorua, the youngest of five children of Mary Wilson and her husband, Seth Webb, a blacksmith. The family moved to Cambridge in 1908 and Wilkinson attended the local primary school, followed by Hamilton High School. She died in Cambridge on 14 December of the same year.

Publications Source: First families of Cambridge (Cambridge Historical Society, 1972) Life was like that (1974) Just roaming (1978) Streets of Cambridge and Senior Citizens Tales, 1980, Cambridge Independent Our Cambridge, 1886–1986 (Cambridge Independent, 1986)