Henry Watkins (diplomat)
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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]
He was the second son of Rev. Richard Watkins, Rector of Whichford in Warwickshire, by his wife Elizabeth Hyckes. His elder brother was Fleetwood Watkins, an army officer, and another brother was Dr Richard Watkins, a senior don at Magdalen College, Oxford until 1709.[3] His sister was Henrietta Watkins, wife of Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet (1679-1749) of Richmond Green in Surrey, of Dutch origin, MP, Governor of the South Sea Company from 1711 to 1712, and a Director of the East India Company in 1713. Henrietta's grandson, and the eventual heir of Sir Matthew Decker, was Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam (1745-1816) of Mount Merrion, Dublin, Ireland, who by his will founded the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
