Ivor Stanley Watkins (10 November 1896 – 24 October 1960)[1] was an Anglican bishop who served in two posts between 1946 and his death.
During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a stretcher-bearer and was gassed.
[3] After the war he briefly attended the emergency ordination school at Knutsford[4] before gaining a place at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he was awarded a degree in history and theology.
[6] Following a curacy in Bedminster, he rose steadily in the Church hierarchy, being successively Vicar of St Gregory’s Horfield, rural dean, then Archdeacon of Bristol before elevation to that diocese's suffragan bishopric as Bishop of Malmesbury.
[8] When the vacancy at Wakefield arose in 1948, Clement Attlee, the prime minister at that time responsible for recommending nominations to bishoprics, wrote: I do not consider this man suitable for appointment to a See.