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Vernon Watkins
Vernon Phillips Watkins (27 June 1906 – 8 October 1967) was a British poet, translator and painter.〔(Welsh Biography Online ) Retrieved : 27 February 2011〕 He was a close friend of Dylan Thomas,〔 who described him as "the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English".
==Early life and studies==
Vernon Watkins was born in Maesteg in Glamorgan, and brought up mainly in Swansea.〔 His birth coincided with slight earth tremors; another baby born that night was christened John Earthquake Jones. His mother was Sarah ("Sally") daughter of Esther Thomas and James Phillips of Sarnau, Meidrim. Her father, a Congregationalist, was reputed to know most of the Welsh bible by heart. Sarah had a love of poetry and literature, her headmistress arranged for her to spend two years as a pupil-teacher in Germany. Sarah married William Watkins in 1902 they had three children, Vernon, Marjorie and Dorothy. William was a manager for Lloyds Bank in Wind Street, Swansea, and the family lived at "Redcliffe", a large Victorian house about four miles from Swansea, at Caswell Bay.
Watkins read fluently by the age of four, and at five announced that he would be a poet, although he did not wish to be published until after his death. He wrote poetry and read widely from eight or nine years of age and was especially fond of the works of Keats and Shelley.〔Evans〕
Vernon was educated at a preparatory school in Sussex, Repton School in Derbyshire, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. His headmaster at Repton was Geoffrey Fisher, who became Archbishop of Canterbury.〔 Despite his parents being Nonconformists, his school experiences influenced him to join the Church of England. He read modern languages at Cambridge: but left before completing his degree.
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