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WATKINS, RICHARD, son of Rev. Henry Watkins DD, Vicar of Sutton under Brailes, Warwicks., and Anne, widow of Richard Love; b.; adm.; KS 1637; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1640, matr. 4 Jun 1641, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1644; MA 1647 (incorp. Cambridge 1650); submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 1648 (Burrows, 154, 158); ordained; Vicar of Ambrosden, Oxfordshire 1655-9; Rector of Whichford, Warwicks., from 1659; Rector of Bourton on the Hill, Gloucs., from 5 May 1679; wrote an account of the recovery of Anne Green, who had been hanged at Oxford 14 Dec 1650, entitled Newes from the Dead, 1651, to which were appended poems on the subject by various Oxford scholars; m. Elizabeth Hyckes; d. 11 Feb 1707/8.

WATKINS, PHILIP; b.; adm.; BB 1683-4 (Chapter Muniments 33719).

WATKINS, PENNOYRE, elder son of Thomas Watkins (adm. 1774, qv); b. 24 Dec 1795; adm. 17 Sep 1806; left 1810; Midshipman, EI Maritime Service; drowned by falling overboard from Apollo East Indiaman, near Madeira, 18 Jun 1812.

WATKINS, JAMES; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1628, adm. scholar 1629, but did not matr.

WATKINS, HENRY, son of Richard Watkins (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1680; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1684, matr. 16 Dec 1684, aged 18, Westminster Student 15 Dec 1684 – Jul 1713, Faculty Student from 18 Jul 1713; BA 1688; MA 1691; Secretary to Earl of Strafford when Ambassador to the United Provinces Apr 1711 – Mar 1712; Secretary to Duke of Ormonde Mar 1712; Judge Advocate to Army in Flanders; MP Brackley 20 Apr 1714 – 1715; Secretary to Earl of Arran, Chancellor, Oxford Univ., from 1722; d. unm. 25 Mar 1727. Buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

Watkins, Harrison Wills, son of T. Wills Watkins, of Hampstead, by Ethel Harrison Clark, of Falmouth; b. April 17, 1899; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (R); left July 1917; R.M.A. Woolwich 1917; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. Sept. 20, 1918; retired as Lieut. July 31, 1924; a citriculturist at Whittier, California; m. Aug. 28, 1923, Elizabeth, daughter of John Thornton Francis Baeyertz, of Whittier; d. June 1974.

Watkins, Guy St. Barbe Sladen, son of Robert Arundel Watkins, of Castle Combe, Wilts, by Mary Ethelred, younger daughter of Douglas Brooke Sladen, of Kensington; b. Nov. 5, 1886; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (G); left Dec. 1903; served in Great War I, Capt. R.A.F. May 29, 1918; m. Dorothy Kate, daughter of James Dean Brand.

WATKINS, GEORGE; b.; at school under Markham; d. at school. [“see new slip”]

WATKINS, GEORGE, son of Capt. John Watkins, Royal Navy, and Mary, eldest dau, . of Vice-Adm. Sir Thomas Hopson; b. 20 Jun 1705; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1716; in under school list 1719. [Parentage stated thus by Whitmore, but on what evidence ?]

WATKINS, FREDERICK, second son of Rev. Henry Watkins, Vicar of Silkstone, Yorks., and Frances Mary, eldest dau. of Freeman Bower, Killerby Hall, Yorks., attorney; b. 1 Apr 1808; adm. 18 Sep 1821 (G); left Christmas 1822; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge; BA 1830; MA 1833; BD 1840; Fellow, Emmanuel Coll. 1838-47; ordained deacon (St. David’s) 4 Sep 1834, priest 1837; HM Inspector of Schools 1841-73; Rector of Long Marston, Yorks., from 1873; Archdeacon and Prebendary of York 1874-84; Examining Chaplain to Archbishop of York 1877; m. 1st, 5 Aug 1847 Amelia, eldest dau. of Rev. George Millett, Vicar of Silkstone, Yorks.; m. 2nd, 17 Sep 1873 Fanny, dau. of William Chambers, Hafod, Cardiganshire; d. 6 Feb 1888.