Watkin began to show an interest in railways and at age 26, also in 1845, he took on the secretaryship of the Trent Valley Railway, which was sold the following year to the London & Birmingham and Grand Junction railways ( which were about to amalgamate to form the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR )), for £ 438, 000.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There he performed with many of those he would work with later as an actor, including future film director Geoff Murphy and actor Ian Watkin.

In 1982 Scruton became founding editor of The Salisbury Review — a journal championing traditional conservatism, in opposition to Thatcherism — set up by a group of Tories known as the Salisbury Group, with the involvement of the Peterhouse Right, a circle of conservatives associated with the Cambridge college, including Maurice Cowling, David Watkin, and the mathematician Adrian Mathias.

Watkin was second cousin to Banastre Tarleton.

Born into an ancient Welsh family, Williams-Wynn was the second son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, by his second wife Charlotte Grenville, daughter of Prime Minister George Grenville.

While the Fry family was less vocal about their radicalism in America, their strong affiliation with the Cincinnati Swedenborgian community, and friendships with wealthy progressives and artists suggests that the Fry's and Henry Watkin were well within the mileiu of radical Cincinnati.

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.

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.

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.

Watkin Tench ( 6 October 1758 – 7 May 1833 ) was a British marine officer who is best known for publishing two books describing his experiences in the First Fleet, which established the first settlement in Australia in 1788.

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 ).

In 1875, the LNWR and the Midland planned to absorb the North Staffordshire Railway, and Watkin suggested to the Great Northern that their two companies might make a counter-offer.

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.

Only two years later, according to correspondence, an accident befell Watkin.

Later that year, after collapsing from exhaustion two friends of Hearn dragged him into Watkin's shop where Hearn implored Watkin for help.

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, following the resignation of Watkin in 1894, relations between the two companies gradually improved under his successors Sir George Russell ( 1895 ) and, most notably, under Cosmo Bonsor ( 1897 ).

Pierre Watkin was the first actor that played Perry White, in the two Superman serials starring Kirk Alyn from 1948 and 1950.

Watkin Williams J upheld this decision, given the agreement between the two.

Watkin served as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the constituencies of Great Yarmouth ( 1857 – 1858 ) Stockport ( 1864 – 1868 ) and later that of Hythe in Kent ( 1874 – 1895 ).

Other members of the group included: John Brotherton ( preacher ); Archibald Prentice ( later editor of the Manchester Times ); John Shuttleworth ( industrialist and municipal reformer ); Absalom Watkin ( parliamentary reformer and anti corn law campaigner ); William Cowdray Jnr ( editor of the Manchester Gazette ); Thomas Potter ( later first mayor of Manchester ) and Richard Potter ( later MP for Wigan ).

Producers of the series say neither Alyn nor his serial co-stars Noel Neill, Thomas " Butch " Bond, or Pierre Watkin ( who later was considered for the role of Perry White following the death of John Hamilton ), were ever seriously considered for the inaugural season.

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

The name " Watkin Williams-Wynn " was common to several of the later baronets.

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

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.

* 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.

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.

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 ).

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.