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Joseph Wilkes
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Wood
Parent(s)Joseph Wilkes (farmer)

Joseph Wilkes (1733–1805) was an 18th-century English industrialist and agricultural improver born in the village of Overseal in Derbyshire but more commonly associated with the village of Measham in Leicestershire.

From a farming family, Wilkes was one of the leading businessmen in the area during the early part of the Industrial Revolution in England.

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