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Wilkes was born in London, the second son of the distiller Israel Wilkes, who had six children.
Wilkes was expelled from the House of Commons on 19 January 1764 and later arrested.
Wilkes hoped for a change in power to remove the charges, but after exhausting his money and stock of goodwill on the continent he returned to England in 1768.
Maurice Vincent Wilkes (born June 26, 1913 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England) is a British computer scientist, credited with several important developments in computing.
Wilkes was called up for military service during WWII and worked in radar and operational research.
Wilkes is also credited with the idea of symbolic labels, macros, and subroutine libraries.
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