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Wilkie also went into partnership with fellow
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George Leavis Allan joined the company as a junior partner in 1862, with the firm becoming Wilkie, Webster & Allan. By 1876, Wilkie and
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311:. Electors of West Bourke petitioned Wilkie to return to represent his former district, but he declined, re-nominating for Polwarth and South Grenville, although he was defeated at the 1861 election by William Nixon.
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