Born in Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, the daughter of Frank Watkin Hiller, a Manchester cotton manufacturer, and Marie Stone, Hiller began her professional career as an actress in repertory at Manchester in the early 1930s.

Confident of Hearn's heretofore-unrecognized abilities, " Mr. Watkin secured for the boy a position with a Captain Barney, who edited and published a commercial paper, for which Hearn solicited advertisements and to which he began also to contribute articles " ( Bronner 1908, 25 ).

Watkin had interests in railways outside the MS & LR and, being granted three months leave of absence to recover his health, agreed to examine the affairs of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada.

Watkin had long-term ambitions for the SER to become one link in a chain of ' Watkin ' railways from the industrial north of England to the Continent via a proposed Channel Tunnel.

Lieutenant William Dawes and colleague Watkin Tench, who were ordered to lead the revenge party, expressed disgust at the idea.

* February 1822 – Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn succeeds Charles Bathurst at the Board of Control.

Watkin had intended to run services from Manchester and Sheffield via Quainton Road and along the Metropolitan Railway to the MR's station at Baker Street.

Although he and his wife had no children of their own, in 1821 they took responsibility for three nephews and a niece when the four children were orphaned ; at the time, Watkin Tench was 63 and his wife was 56.

David Watkin writes that the Tempietto, like Raphael's works in the Vatican ( 1509 – 11 ), " is an attempt at reconciling Christian and humanist ideals ".

Author and First Fleet officer Watkin Tench, whose accounts are primary sources about the early years of the colony, never suggested that the epidemic may have been caused by Aborigines disturbing the grave of a French sailor who died shortly after arrival in Australia ( supposedly of smallpox ) and had been buried at Botany Bay.

James Watkin, based at Karitane, found materials prepared by North Island missions unusable in Otago.

The Watkin family was large and after his father's death at the age of six, Henry, his four older and two younger siblings were raised by their mother with income from the Watkin family's rental properties.

By 1847 Watkin had made his way to Cincinnati where he worked for the Cincinnati newspaper, the Daily Gazette, a known organ for the land reform movement at the time.

According to his obituary, Watkin died of exhaustion at 4 o ' clock in the morning, Monday, November 21, 1910, at the age of 86.

The first Christian service at Koputai was held by the Reverend James Watkin, the Wesleyan missionary at Waikouaiti, in 1842.

Histories covering Indigenous themes include Watkin Tench ( Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay et Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson ); Roderick J. Flanagan ( The Aborigines of Australia, 1888 ); The Native Tribes of Central Australia by Spencer and Gillen, 1899 ; the diaries of Donald Thompson on the subject of the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land ( c. 1935-1943 ); Alan Moorehead ( The fatal Impact, 1966 ); Geoffrey Blainey ( Triumph of the Nomads, 1975 ); Henry Reynolds ( The Other Side of the Frontier, 1981 ); and Marcia Langton ( First Australians, 2008 ).

Watkin Tench ( 1758 – 1833 )-a British officer who arrived with the First Fleet in 1788-later published two books on the subject of the foundations of New South Wales: Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson.

However Watkin set up his mission station at Karitane.

The organ at Wynnstay was built by John Snetzler in 1774 for Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn's London home in St. James's Square but was moved to Wynnstay in 1863.

There was a tradition of house-parties and theatre, with Sir Watkin of Wynnstay holding a six-week season of plays each winter, at which Madocks and his brothers excelled.

Watkin took five wickets, including those of Carl Hooper, Viv Richards and Gus Logie in a match-turning spell in the second innings, in England's ultimate victory in the match, but he fared less well two weeks later at Lord's.

Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet ( 26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901 ) was an English railway chairman and politician.

# Lady Henrietta Somerset ( 26 April 1748 – 24 July 1770 ), married Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet on 6 April 1769, without issue

On May 26 of that same year, Henry Watkin married Laura Ann Fry ( 1831-1914 ), a dressmaker and woodcarver from a family of prominent artist craftsmen and Swedenborgians hailing from Bath, England ( Howe 2003 ).

# Lady Henrietta Somerset ( 26 April 1748-24 July 1770, aged 22 ), married Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet on 6 April 1769, no issue.

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet ( 1692 – 26 September 1749 ) was a Welsh politician and prominent Jacobite.

Watkin Tench, of the First Fleet, wrote of an admiration for the Aborigines of Sydney as good natured and good humoured people, though he also reported violent hostility between the Eora and Cammeraygal peoples, and noted violent domestic altercations between his friend Bennelong and his wife Barangaroo.

David Watkin also wrote of a blend of Russian and Byzantine roots, calling the cathedral " the climax " of Russian vernacular wooden architecture.

It was also built due to various disagreements between the MetR and GCR after the resignation of Sir Edward Watkin from both companies.

Watkin also served on other railway companies.

Fortunately, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn was in attendance ; as the local JP ( and also the sitting Member of Parliament ), he went next door, opened the Court, extended the hotel's licensing hours, thus enabling the meeting to continue.

Watkin also published a large number of songsheets of African-American spirituals and hymns, as well as sermons from the African Methodist Episcopal Church, other spiritualist writings, and miscellaneous printings for Cincinnati merchants and commercial enterprises.

Three days later, AB-PT announced that Don C. Harvey, Morris Ankrum, Pierre Watkin, Ralph Sanford, and Richard Benedict had also been cast.

This was Edward ( later Sir Edward ) Watkin who was also chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and the Metropolitan Railway, as well as being a director of Chemin de Fer du Nord in France.

Cudworth also provided several sound locomotive types for the railway, but resigned in 1876 after Sir Edward Watkin ordered 20 express locomotives against Cudworth's wishes, which subsequently proved to have been unsuccessful.

Watkin made his first-class debut against Worcestershire in 1986, taking the wickets of Graeme Hick and Phil Neale, and also played two Sunday League games, but had to wait until 1988 for a second chance.

Oscar-winning cinematographer David Watkin also got his start lighting BTF films from 1950 to 1960.

Captain Willington's cornet from the Tamworth garrison took a mare, saddle and bridle from John Watkin, while Captain Willington's soldiers took a horse worth £ 5 from Thomas Bodington.

Edward Watkin took over in his place in 1854.

On inheriting the estate, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn took on the additional surname of Wynn and commissioned the building of a new mansion, to be known as Wynnstay, to replace the original building.

* Gladstone Rock — a large boulder about 12 ft high in Cwm Llan on the Watkin Path on the south side of Snowdon where Gladstone made a speech in 1892.

After the petition raised on behalf of the group by Absalom Watkin, Parliament passed the Reform Act 1832.

In June 2010, the Israeli government appointed Lord Trimble to be one of two international observers serving on an Israeli commission of inquiry looking into the events surrounding an Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara, along with Canadian former Judge Advocate General Ken Watkin.

Other novels about the university include Geese in the Forum ( Knopf, 1940 ) by Lawrence Edward Watkin, a professor of English who went on to become a screenwriter for Disney ( the college faculty were the titular geese ); The Hero ( Julian Messner, 1949 ), by Millard Lampell, filmed as Saturday's Hero, starring Donna Reed and John Derek ( Columbia Studios, 1951 ), about a football player who struggles to balance athletics, academics and a social life ; and A Sound of Voices Dying by Glenn Scott ( E. P.

Traffic was initially " almost non-existent " due to Verney Junction's rural locality, but the Metropolitan Railway under the influence of Sir Edward Watkin nevertheless saw an opportunity for growth and absorbed the A & BR on 1 July 1891.

Actor Pierre Watkin was hired to replace Hamilton as " Perry White's brother " ( Watkin had played Perry White himself in the two Columbia serials, and had guested on the series before ).

* Charles Watkin Williams Wynn ( 1775-1850 ) on " A Web of English History "

Watkin remained a major shareholder and retained a seat on the board, taking an active role in many of the MS & LR's projects, such as the Cheshire Lines Committee.

By 1870, Watkin had relinquished his position on the boards of the GWR and the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada.

However, in 1877, the Great Northern suggested that it, the Midland and the MS & LR should merge, the scheme foundering, to the annoyance of the MS & LR directors, on the conditions stiplulated by Watkin.

In his printing shop, and on lengthy walks through Cincinnati, Watkin and Hearn discussed the utopias of Robert Owen, Comte de Saint-Simon, and Charles Fourier, the fantasies of Edgar Allan Poe, and all the morbid and sensational events that found their place in Hearn ’ s articles for the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Commercial.

Various courses are now taught on the Cyncoed campus of Cardiff Metropolitan University, but it is most famous for its physical education department which has produced various sports people from its students, including: Dai Davies ; Lynn Davies ; Gareth Edwards ; Clive Griffiths ; Greg Thomas ; Steve Watkin.

Although no path is marked on maps, the ascent is easily made as a detour from the Rhyd Ddu path or the Watkin Path up Snowdon.

There is a gallery devoted to British patronage of the eighteenth century, in particular that of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, who was nicknamed ' the Welsh Medici ' for his lavish spending on the arts.

Early accounts by Dutch explorers and the English bucaneer William Dampier wrote of the " natives of New Holland " as being " barbarous savages ", but by the time of Captain James Cook and First Fleet marine Watkin Tench ( the era of Jean-Jacques Rousseau ), accounts of Aborigines were more sympathetic and romantic: " these people may truly be said to be in the pure state of nature, and may appear to some to be the most wretched upon the earth ; but in reality they are far happier than ... we Europeans ", wrote Cook in his journal on 23 August 1770.

Watkin Tench, an officer of the marines on the First Fleet and author.

Among the first true works of literature produced in Australia were the accounts of the settlement of Sydney by Watkin Tench, a captain of the marines on the First Fleet to arrive in 1788.