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WATKINSON, JOSEPH, son of Joseph Watkinson, Wakefield, Yorks., and Margaret, dau. of Robert Hartley; bapt. All Saints, Wakefield, Yorks., 24 Apr 1683 (IGI); at school under Knipe (M. I. Merton Coll. ); Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Mar 1700, aged 16, postmaster; BA 1703; MA 1709; Fellow of Merton Coll. from 1709, also Tutor; buried Merton Coll. Chapel, Oxford 26 Dec 1720, aged 37.

WATKINSON, HENRY, son of Henry Watkinson, Whitechapel, Middlesex, and Mary (Clarke ?) (IGI); bapt. St. Mary, Whitechapel 27 Jul 1704 (IGI); adm. (aged 13) Apr 1718; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Feb 1721/2; BA 1725; MA 1728; ordained deacon 1 Jun 1729, priest 20 Dec 1730 (both Oxford).

WATKINS, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1719/20.

WATKINS, THOMAS, younger son of Pennoyre Watkins, Breconshire, attorney, and Mary, dau. of David Lloyd, Rhosferig, Breconshire; b. 2 Sep 1761; adm. 14 Feb 1774; in school list Jul 1779; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1779; BA 1783; MA 1786; Grand Tour (Italy, Switzerland, Near East) 1787-9; Rector [or Vicar : check] of Llandefaelog, Breconshire, from 1799; FRS 23 Jan 1794; FSA 11 Feb 1796; called “Cellarius” Watkins by George Colman (qv) in his Random Records, 1830, i, 296; author, Travels in Switzerland, Italy, etc., 1792; m. 22 Jan 1795 Susanna Eleonora, only dau. of Richard Vaughan, Shenfield, Essex, and Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, Lord Lieut. Carmarthenshire; d. 15 Oct 1829.

WATKINS, SAMUEL; b.; adm.; BB 1678-80 (Chapter Muniments 33714-5).

WATKINS, ROBERT; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1631, but was never adm.

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.