E. I. Watkin

Edward Ingram Watkin (1888-1981) was an English writer.

He studied at St Paul's School, London and New College, Oxford. In 1908, Watkin became a convert to Catholicism. He publicly opposed conscription in 1916, a position he upheld in his 1939 pamphlet The Crime of Conscription.

In 1927, Watkin befriended the exiled Italian priest Don Luigi Sturzo, whose work Watkin would later publish in the Dublin Review. He founded in 1936 with Eric Gill and Donald Attwater the inter-war Catholic pacifist movement Pax. This movement was prominently supported by Dorothy Day.

Watkin was opposed to fascism, and his book The Catholic Centre includes a critique of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany as being part of "a social revolt against reason".

His maternal grandfather was Herbert Ingram; Edward Watkin was a great-uncle on his father’s side.

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