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Maurice B. Tonkin
A researcher and coauthor remembered chiefly for helping document the craft world of colonial Williamsburg, with a special focus on 18th-century wigmaking and barbering. His surviving published work opens a small but vivid window onto everyday skilled labor in early America.
1 Audiobook
The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg An Account of His Barbering, Hair-dressing, & Peruke-Making Services, & Some Remarks on Wigs of Various Styles.
by Thomas K. Bullock, Maurice B. Tonkin
About the author
Maurice B. Tonkin Jr. appears to have been a researcher and writer associated with historical work on colonial trades. The clearest published record I could confirm is his collaboration with Thomas K. Bullock on The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, a work connected with Colonial Williamsburg and later preserved in library and archive catalogs.
That book and related research reports focus on barbering, hairdressing, and peruke-making in 18th-century Williamsburg. Even from the limited record available online, Tonkin's contribution stands out as part of a practical, detail-rich style of historical writing that helps modern readers understand how specialized trades worked in everyday colonial life.
Biographical details about his life and career are scarce in the sources I could confirm, so a fuller personal profile would risk going beyond the evidence. Based on the available record, he is best introduced as a careful historical collaborator whose work helped preserve knowledge of an unusually specific and fascinating craft.