Watkin baronets

The coat of arms of the Watkin baronets on a bookplate of Sir Edward William Watkin, the first Baronet. It is emblazoned as follows: "Argent gutté de poix a leopard's face jessant-de-lis azure between three harvest flies volant proper. Crest: a cock's head couped transfixed through the mouth by a tilting spear palewise all proper." The motto is "Saie and doe" (probably "Say and do").^[1]

The Watkin Baronetcy, of Northenden in the County Palatine of Chester (now Cheshire), was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 12 May 1880 for the railway magnate and politician Sir Edward William Watkin. He was succeeded by his son, Alfred Meller Watkin, the second Baronet, who sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby. The title became extinct on the second Baronet's death in 1914.

Watkin baronets, of Northenden (1880)

• Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet (1819–1901)
• Sir Alfred Meller Watkin, 2nd Baronet (1846–1914)

References

1. Bernard Burke (1878), The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, London: Harrison, p. cxxviii, OCLC 752749300.

• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets .