Arthur Watkyn

Arthur Thomas Levi Watkins (1907–1965) was a British public official who served as Secretary of the British Board of Film Censors from 1948 to 1956, then as vice-president of the British Film Producers' Association. Under the name of Arthur Watkyn, he wrote novels and plays. Early life Born in Aberystwith, Cardiganshire, Watkins was the son of Richard Edgar Watkins (1872–1947), a bank manager, the son of a brewer in Llandovery, and his wife Katherine Levi (1876–1954), the daughter of a Methodist minister, who had married in Aberystwith in 1906. He had a younger brother, Leonard. He was educated at Tonbridge School and Christ Church, Oxford.