Educated at the Hackney Theological Academy, he was a Congregational minister of New Broad Street in London; from 1819 he lived in Paris. He was the father of the civil engineer Clement Wilks.

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Mark Wilks:

History of the Persecutions endured by the Protestants of the South of France, and more especially of the Department of the Gard during the years 1814, 1815, 1816, etc..