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Gwatkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Frank Trelawny Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin was a British diplomat and Foreign Office official. He was a significant influence on the British foreign policy in the Far East in the early 20th century. He also published a number of novels and other works under the pseudonym John Paris.

Henry Melvill Gwatkin was an English theologian and church historian.

Brigadier Sir Norman Wilmshurst Gwatkin was a British Army officer and courtier in the Household of Elizabeth II.

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Watkin is an English surname formed as a diminutive of the name Watt, a popular Middle English given name itself derived as a pet form of the name Walter. First found in a small Welsh village in 1629.

Watkinson is a surname of English origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881 Watkinson Surname at Forebears, its frequency was highest in Nottinghamshire, followed by Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Essex and Cheshire. The name Watkinson may apply to:

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