Note: Dom Watkin's letters to the Bishop often contain Latin words and phrases.
1918: born 1936: novice at Downside Abbey 1937: clothed 1943: ordained 1943: Christ's College, Cambridge, to read History - gaining a double First 1946: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society 1948-1962: Housemaster at Downside 1962-1975: Headmaster of Downside 1975-1989: Beccles, parish priest 1975: Mayor of Beccles 1989: Downside as Abbot of Glastonbury 1997: died
Fr Clothier became PP at St Benet's Beccles in 1990 (1 year after Fr Watkin left for Downside to become Abbot)
Fr Watkin became PP at St Benet's Suffolk in 1975