Percy Watkins

Sir Percy Emerson Watkins (3 December 1871 – 5 May 1946) was a Welsh civil servant and public administrator.

Born on 3 December 1871 at Llanfyllin, he attended the high school in Oswestry before he was appointed clerk of the Central Welsh Board in 1896. He was Chief Clerk to the Education Department of the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1904 to 1911, and was then registrar of the University College, Cardiff, from 1911 to 1913 and Assistant Secretary to the Welsh Insurance Commission from 1913 to 1925. In the latter year, he became Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education, serving until 1933. He was knighted in 1930 and died on 5 May 1946, having published an autobiography two years earlier.