William Raymond Watkins

William Raymond Watkins

William Raymond Watkins was born in Newbridge on 22 March 1933 and educated at the local grammar school and St Luke's College, Exeter. He played scrum-half for Newbridge, Pontypool and eventually Newport where he was a player when called up as an eleventh-hour replacement for A.A.Mulligan in the Barbarians' team that beat South Africa in 1961. Billy Watkins gained one cap for Wales against France in 1959.