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Glyn Watkins

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(Daniel) Glyn Watkins[1] (16 November 1845 in Adstock, England – 29 June 1907 in Perth, Western Australia) was an Anglican priest, most notably Archdeacon of Perth, WA from 1889 until his death. There is a street named after him in Fremantle.[2]

Watkins was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge[3] and ordained in 1887.[4] After a curacy in Basford he went as a Colonial Chaplain to Greenough, Western Australia in 1870. He was Rector of Fremantle from 1875 to 1905.[5]

He died on 29 June 1907.

References

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  1. ^ State Library of Western Australia
  2. ^ "Streets".
  3. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. vi Square – Zupitza, (1954) p364
  4. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1885 p 1250: London, Horace Cox, 1885
  5. ^ Fremantle Anglican


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