Sir Alfred Mellor Watkin, 2nd Baronet (11 August 1846 – 30 November 1914)[1][2][3] was a Liberal Party politician and railway engineer.

In 1863, around age 17, Watkin became an apprentice in the locomotive department of the West Midland Railway before being transferred the next year to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway where he qualified as an express engine driver.

[4] He was elected Liberal MP for Great Grimsby at a by-election in 1877, gaining the seat from the Conservative Party.

[4][6] During his life, Watkin was a Deputy Lieutenant of Middlesex, a Justice of the Peace, and a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold of Belgium.

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