Henry William Watkins

Revd.; the Venerable Archdeacon Henry William Watkins
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Born	1844
Died	1922
Residence	Canterbury The College, Durham [1881]
Occupation	church literary academic
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1887.01.11 resigned elected_AI 1878.06.25

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1878.06.25 proposed and elected
Warden of St Augustine's College, Canterbury

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The Ven. H. W. Watkins, D.D. Prof. of Hebrew, Durham University, and Archdeacon of Durham.
W. or B.F.W.
1880 became Archdeacon of Northumberland
Henry William Watkins[1][2] was an Anglican priest, academic and author.[3][4][5][6]
Born in Abergavenny on 19 January 1844,[7] he was educated at King's College London[8] and Balliol College, Oxford.[9] Ordained in 1870 [10] his first post was as a curate at St Nicholas, Pluckley [11] after which he was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Much Wenlock.[12] He was a censor, tutor and lecturer in Greek Testament at King's College London from 1875 and Professor of Logic and Moral Philosophy from 1877. He became Warden of St Augustine's College, Canterbury[13] in 1879; then held the three archdeaconries of the Diocese of Durham in quick succession: Archdeacon of Northumberland, 1880–June 1882; Archdeacon of Auckland, June–November 1882; and Archdeacon of Durham, November 1882–1922.[14][15] He was Professor of Hebrew at Durham University,[16] retiring in 1920; and the Bampton Lecturer at Oxford, in 1890.[17]
He died at Brighton[18] on 31 August 1922