WATKIN, Alfred Mellor was born on August 19, 1846 in Manchester. Son of 1st Baronet, and Mary, daughter of Jonathan Mellor, Justice of the Peace Oldham, Lancashire. Succeeded father 1901.
W. Catherine, daughter of R. Payne Smith, Doctor of Divinity, Dean of Canterbury, 1876.
Studied at private schools. Apprentice Locomotive Department, West Midland Railway, 1863. Transferred to Manchester and Sheffield Railway, 1864.
Express engine-driver, 1865.
Locomotive inspector, London, Chatham, and Dover Lincolnshire, 1867. Transferred to South-Eastern Lincolnshire, 1868.
Locomotive superintendent, 1873.
Director, 1878; chairman of Locomotive Committee of South-Eastern directors, 1880-1900. 2nd Baronet.; cartulary-register 1SS0. Justice of the Peace, Doctorate.L.
Chevalier Order of Leo- 2112 pold. Director of South-Eastern Railway.
Clubs: Reform, City Liberal, Royal Automobile. Kent Automobile. M.: O 2988, O 3822.
