June Knowles (24 June 1923 – 14 October 2012), better known by her pen name Elizabeth Watkins, was an English author, brought up in Kenya, where her parents - Oscar Ferris Watkins (1877–1943) and Olga Florence Watkins (née Baillie Grohman) (1889–1947) - had started a coffee farm outside Nairobi, and later educated at St Anne's College, Oxford. In 1949 she married Oliver Staniforth Knowles (1920–2008) in Nairobi, they had met at Oxford University and moved to Kenya where he was in the Colonial Administration. They had four sons.