Henry William Watkins was an Anglican priest, academic and author.^[1][2][3][4]

Born in Abergavenny on 19 January 1844,^[5] he was educated at King's College London^[6] and Balliol College, Oxford.^[7] Ordained in 1870 ^[8] his first post was as a curate at St Nicholas, Pluckley^[9] after which he was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Much Wenlock.^[10] He was a censor, tutor and lecturer in Greek Testament at King's College London from 1875 and Professor of Logic and Moral Philosophy from 1877. He became Warden of St Augustine's College, Canterbury^[11] in 1879; then held the three archdeaconries of the Diocese of Durham in quick succession: Archdeacon of Northumberland, 1880–June 1882; Archdeacon of Auckland, June–November 1882; and Archdeacon of Durham, November 1882 – 1922.^[12][13] He was Professor of Hebrew at Durham University,^[14] retiring in 1920; and the Bampton Lecturer at Oxford, in 1890.^[15] His was married to Helen (Edith) Thompson (1860–1930), the daughter of Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet and Lady Kate Thompson, née Loder.

He died at Brighton^[16] on 31 August 1922.^[17]

• Modern Criticism Considered in Its Relation to the Fourth Gospel (1890, Brampton Lectures)