Michael Edward Wilkinson died on 8 April, 2024.
After Emanuel School, Michael won an Exhibition to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and read History. He married and moved to Madrid.
Then followed a career in international banking which took him worldwide – from Madrid to South America, New Zealand, parts of the former Soviet Union as well as at the Bank of England covering the Asia/Pacific region.
In retirement, from a stone farmhouse in Asturias, Northern Spain, he travelled around the country and studied the cultural richness of the medieval period through religion, architecture and music. He documented the founding of the local monastery of Valdediós, by Queen Berenguela in AD 893.
He came back to Canterbury where he found friends and stimulating conversation.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara, and two daughters, Luisa and Emily.
Barbara Wilkinson, wife