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This baronet from Berkswell Hall, Warwickshire supported his relative Thomas Wilmot's moves to establish what became the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. Wilmot was a magistrate - see PA295/33/84 dated 1821. PA14/6/117 refers to his impending trip (1843) to Van Diemen's Land.When M.P.for North Warwickshire in 1835, Wilmot gave £5 to Grove Street Primitive Methodist Chapel. In 1817 Wilmot's home estate at Berkswell bordered on Allesley parish (see PA219/20/2). In 1811 Wilmot was an assignee of the bankrupt silk manufacturer T.G.Gray - see PA66/3/2: PA56/92/29. Governor of Van Diemen's Land, 1843-46 (see PA14/6/117). Wilmot assigned Little Park Street messuages (1830 - BA/B/P/286/2). Born, 1783; Baronet,1821; died 1847. He was buried in Hobart but there is a memorial in Berkswell church. Wilmot sold Meadow Farm, Temple Balsall, Warwickshire in 1858 - see PA466/8/1 fol.152. A commissioner for the bankruptcy of Samuel Smith, watchmaker, 1817 (PA55/2/21). Lord of Berkswell manor, Warwickshire from the death of his father John Eardley-Wilmot in 1815 - see PA56/118/9: PA491/32/1.I: PA1049/18/48,54,55. Wilmot was named a bankruptcy assignee for the butcher William Rostill in 1815 - see CCA/2/3/160/6.