Gwatkin
Gwatkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Frank Ashton-Gwatkin (1889–1976), British diplomat * Henry Melvill Gwatkin (18441916), British theologian and historian * Norman Gwatkin (1899–1971), British officer and courtier * Phil Gwatkin (active 195357), English footballer * Robert Lovell Gwatkin (1757–1843), High Sheriff of Cornwall * Thomas Gwatkin (1741–1800), English cleric and academic * Willoughby Garnons Gwatkin (18591925), British general who served with the Canadian army during World War 1 Fictional people * Daniel Gwatkin, in the song "The Unfortunate Gwatkin" on the 2014 album ''Urge for Offal'' by the band Half Man Half Biscuit * Rowland Gwatkin, in ''The Valley of Bones'' and ''The Military Philosophers'' in the novel sequence ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell See also * Watkin * Watkins (other) * Watkinson * {{surname, Gwatkin [Baidu]  

Robert Lovell Gwatkin
Robert Lovell Gwatkin (1757–1843) was an English landowner, High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1789. Early life He was the son of Edward Gwatkin (died 1764), a merchant in Bristol, and his wife Ann(e) Lovell. Ann Lovell Gwatkin came to know Hannah More, at school with her daughter, and became an important supporter. His father's will, in which Edward Gwatkin describes himself as a soapmaker, made Robert Lovell Gwatkin his residual legatee at age 21. He was an heir also, on his mother's side, to the family of Bedford of Launceston. Gwatkin's sister, Charlotte Ann, married William Gregor. His three younger brother were John, a Royal Navy officer, Edward, a solicitor who married Octavia, daughter of George Harnage, 1st Baronet, (or of Henry Harnage of the 62nd Regiment) and Thomas who died unmarried. Gwatkin was admitted to the Middle Temple on 21 May 1774, and to St John's College, Cambridge two days later. There he graduated B.A. in 1778, and M.A. by royal mandate the same year. H ...
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