Henry Watkins (priest), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British Archdeacon
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About Henry Watkins (priest)
- Henry William Watkins was an Anglican priest, academic and author.Born in Abergavenny on 19 January 1844, he was educated at King's College London and Balliol College, Oxford.
- Ordained in 1870 his first post was as a curate at St Nicholas, Pluckley after which he was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Much Wenlock.
- 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 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.
- He was Professor of Hebrew at Durham University, retiring in 1920; and the Bampton Lecturer at Oxford, in 1890.He died at Brighton on 31 August 1922.
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