George Charles Silk (1822/3–1910)

Private secretary. Clerk at the London Diocesan Church Building Society and Metropolis Churches’ Fund, and assistant to its secretary John Sinclair, archdeacon of Middlesex and vicar of Kensington. A lifelong friend of Alfred Russel Wallace. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1869–78.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1468/257/53)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 23 January 2018)

List of the fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, 1869–79

Post Office London directory 1865–75

Wallace 1905, 1: 32, 73, 325, 409

Williams-Ellis 1966, p. 3.