 Between 1883 and 1893 Wilkinson let the house, known as Rooksnest, to the mother of the author E. M. Forster.Lily Forster and her son had to leave, unwillingly, when the Poyntz Stewarts, to whom the property had passed, wished it vacated.Forster had written a piece about the house, the "Rooksnest memoir", by 1894 when he was 15 which mentions Wilkinson as landlord.