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Lowry Rush Watkins, Jr., a native of Louisville, Kentucky, is the son of the former Barbara Bullitt and Lowry Rush Watkins.  He is a life-long member of St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church and was a member of Boy Scout Troop 109, which is sponsored by this parish. Mr. Watkins attended Aquinas Preparatory School and graduated from the University of Louisville with a B.S.C. in Finance. Mr. Watkins is a licensed pilot, rated as a flight and ground instructor, instrument, glider, seaplane, DC-3, B-25, B-17, and air taxi pilot. He is a semi-retired real estate developer and has his Kentucky Real Estate License. Mr. Watkins, inspired by his maternal grandfather’s genealogy interest that spanned over five decades, he has been active since 1977. He is a member of over 140 hereditary societies, which is an all-time record. He is a contributing author for the best-selling Solicitor General Bullitt: The Life of William Marshall Bullitt, a biography of his maternal grandfather. He has also published two other books on his parents and grandparents.

Mr. Watkins is a sponsor of the University of Louisville, School of Business having established an award, book fund, lecture, scholarship, and an endowed chair in Finance.  He has similarly provided various endowments in memory of his mother and grandparents at other schools at the University of Louisville and for his great-grandfather at Centre College.  He has also been generous in supporting various historical and lineage societies' philanthropic funds and projects. 

Mr. Watkins is a member of the Pendennis Club, Oxmoor Country Club, and a founding member of the University Club, University of Louisville all in Louisville, and the Delray Beach Club in Florida. He is a long-time member of the Social Register Association. He enjoys boating, flying, polo, dancing, sailing as well as American and European history.

Memberships

  • American Ex-Prisoners of War

  • Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

  • Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion (Knight of the Order)

  • Baronial Order of Magna Charta

  • Colonial Order of the Acorn

  • Colonial Order of the Crown

  • Crown and Sceptre

  • Descendants of Brian Boru

  • Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands

  • Descendants of Colonial Mothers 1607 - July 4, 1776

  • Descendants of Colonial Regulators

  • Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900

  • Descendants of Fossors

  • Descendants of Founders of Places of Worship in America

  • Descendants of Miners 1607-1907 

  • Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America

  • Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor

  • Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons & Daughters of the Kings of Britain

  • Descendants of the Knights of the Bath

  • Descendants of the Templar Knights

  • Dutch Colonial Society

  • First Families of Kentucky

  • First Families of Pennsylvania

  • First Settlers of the Shenandoah Valley

  • Flagon and Trencher

  • General Society of Colonial Wars

  • General Society of Mayflower Descendants

  • General Society of the War of 1812

  • General Society Sons of the Revolution

  • Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783

  • Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution

  • Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

  • Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America

  • Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

  • Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon

  • Hereditary Society of Teachers

  • Huguenot Society of America

  • Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia

  • Jamestowne Society (National Officer)

  • Legion of Vikings and Valkyries

  • Ligon Family and Kinsmen Association

  • Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States

  • Military Order of the Crusades

  • Military Order of the Southern Cross

  • Military Order of the Stars and Bars

  • Military Order of the World Wars

  • Military Society of the War of 1812

  • Morgan's Men Association

  • National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland

  • National Huguenot Society

  • National Society Americans of Royal Descent

  • National Society Descendants of American Farmers

  • National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants

  • National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

  • National Society of Saints and Sinners

  • National Society of Sons of the American Colonists

  • National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

  • National Society Sons of Colonial New England

  • Non Compos Mentis

  • Order of Alba

  • Order of American Cousins of the Present and Future Sovereigns of GB

  • Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

  • Order of Daedalians

  • Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters

  • Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers

  • Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

  • Order of Descendants of Pirates and Privateers

  • Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company

  • Order of Descendants of the Justiciars

  • Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662

  • Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/25

  • Order of Indian Wars of the United States

  • Order of Medieval Women: Women of Consequence

  • Order of Monarchs of Rheims

  • Order of Saint Louis (NSARD)

  • Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

  • Order of the Descendants of El Cid

  • Order of the Descendants of Native Americans and Friends

  • Order of the First Families of Maine

  • Order of the First Families of Maryland

  • Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680

  • Order of the First Families of Virginia

  • Order of the First World War

  • Order of the Founders of North America 1492-1692

  • Order of the Founders of the Granville District 

  • Order of the Honorable Artillery Company

  • Order of the House of Wessex

  • Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands

  • Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

  • Order of the Monarch of Rheims

  • Order of the Norman Conquest

  • Order of the Second World War

  • Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia

  • Order of the Steel Magnolias 

  • Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192

  • Order of Washington

  • Order of William the Marshal 

  • Pilgrim Francis Cooke Society

  • Plantagenet Society

  • Plymouth Hereditary Society

  • Presidential Families of America

  • Registry of Infamous and Famous Relatives in American Families

  • Royal Society of Saint George

  • Scions of Freedom Signers

  • Society of Descendants of Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

  • Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva

  • Society of Knights Templar Descendants

  • Society of the 1704 Virginia Quit Rents 

  • Society of the Cincinnati

  • Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

  • Society of the Descendants of the Founding Fathers of New England

  • Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge

  • Son of a Witch 

  • Sons and Daughters of Officers of the Colonial Militia 1775-1783 

  • Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

  • Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury Massachusetts

  • Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers

  • Sons of Confederate Veterans

  • Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent

  • The Boston Tea Party Society, Founder

  • The IX

  • The Society of Knights Templar Descendants

  • Virginia Huguenot Society

  • Welsh Society of Philadelphia

  • Winthrop Society

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