Henry Watkins (diplomat)

Arms of Watkins: Azure, a fess vair between three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys or[1]

Henry Watkins (1666-1727) of Christ Church, Oxford, and Duke Street, Westminster, was an army administrator and diplomat who served briefly as a Member of Parliament for Brackley in Northamptonshire (20 April 1714 – 1715).[2]

  1. ^ As impaled by Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet on his monument at St Mary Magdalene's Church, Richmond
  2. ^ Biography by Andrew A. Hanham of Watkins, Henry (c.1666-1727), of Christ Church, Oxford, and Duke Street, Westminster, Mdx., published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1690-1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002 [1]