Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Watkin, E. I. (Edward Ingram)
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Watkin, E. I. (Edward Ingram), 1888-1981
Other form(s) of name
- E. I. Watkin, E.I. Watkin
- Edward Ingram Watkin, Edward Ingram
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1888-1981
History
E. I. Watkin was an Oxford-educated scholar, philosopher, prolific writer, linguist and translator who was proficient in French, Italian, Spanish and German. He was born a Protestant, moved to the Anglo-Catholics in his teenage years, and became Roman Catholic in 1908. He was concerned about the rise of secularism, but believed in taking Catholicism beyond its surface teachings to profound philosophical and mystical ends. He sometimes ran into trouble with church authority in his approach.