Ivor Stanley Watkins (10 November 1896 – 24 October 1960) was an Anglican bishop who served in two posts between 1946 and his death. Watkins was born in 1896 and educated at Hereford Cathedral School. During the Great War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was a stretcher-bearer, was gassed and spent considerable time in hospital where he learnt the 3-card trick which he used to entertain children. After the war he briefly attended the emergency ordination school at Knutsford before gaining a place at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he was awarded a degree in history and theology. He was made deacon on Trinity Sunday 1924 (15 June) at St John's Bedminster (his title parish) and ordained a priest that Advent (21 December 1924) at Bristol Cathedral, both times by George Nickson, B