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WATTS, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1740/1 (Deane's); left 1748 [Perhaps Thomas Watts, son of Thomas Watts MP, Enfield Chase, Middlesex, Secretary and Cashier Sun Fire Office, and Susanna, dau. of Benjamin Gascoyne, Chiswick, Middlesex, and sister of Sir Crisp Gascoyne, Kt, Lord Mayor of London; bapt. St. Christopher Le Stocks, London, 14 Jul 1730; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1748, aged 17; Secretary, Sun Fire Office (Royal Kalendar 1769) : still director, Sun Life Office 1794 (?)]

WATTS, MONTAGU, brother of John James Watts (qv); b. 5 Mar 1808; adm. 23 Jan 1817; Addiscombe Coll. 1819-24; Cadet, EICS Madras 1824; 2nd Lieut., Artillery 16 Dec 1824; , Lieut., 23 May 1825; Capt., 10 Jun 1842; Brevet Maj., 11 Nov 1851; ret. as Lieut. -Col., 28 Nov 1854; m. 19 Apr 1855 Catherine Jane, youngest dau. of John Bird, EICS Madras; d. 24 Nov 1867.

WATTS, MARTIN; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1624, adm. scholar 1625, matr. Easter 1625.

WATTS, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 9) May 1744 (Deane's); left 1749.

Watts, Sir John Peter Barry Condliffe, son of Leonora Emily Condliffe, draper’s shop asst., of Portsmouth, Hants; stepson of Gerald Walter Watts, civil engineer, whose surname he adopted; b. 27 Aug. 1930; adm. from Sheikh Bagh Sch. Srinagar, Kashmir, India, Mar. 1944 (B); left July 1947; Phillips Academy, Andover, USA; RMA Sandhurst; commissioned Roy. Ulster Regt. 1951 (Roy. Irish Rangers 1968); served Hong Kong, Malaya (despatches), Cyprus, Oman, BAOR, Borneo and Saudi Arabia; commanded SAS unit which stormed Jebel Akbar, stronghold of Omani rebels, Jan. 1959; MC 1960; 48 Gurkha Infantry Brigade 1967-9; CO, 22 SAS Regt. 1970-2; directing staff, Staff Coll. Camberley 1972-4; MOD 1974; commander, SAS Group 1975-8; Maj. -Gen. 1979; commander Sultan of Oman’s Land Forces 1979-84, chief of Defence Staff 1984-7; Lieut. -Gen. 1984; OBE 1972, CBE 1979, CB 1985; retd. Dec. 1987; KBE 1988; m. 1st, 11 Dec. 1954 (div. 1986) Mary Elizabeth Gertrude, d. of Thomas Flynn, postal clerk; 2nd, 13 Feb 1986 Diana Merran Watts, formerly Walker, d. of Lieut. -Col. Reginald Steward; d. 10 Dec. 2003.

WATTS, JOHN JAMES, eldest son of John Nicholson Watts, EICS Madras, Hawkesdale, Cumberland, and Anne Pitt, dau. of James Dodson, Reading Hill, Berks.; b. India 15 Mar 1803; adm. 23 Jan 1817; of Hawkesdale Hall, Cumberland; m. Eliza Mary Selby; living 1881 (1881 Census).

WATTS, JOHN EDWARD, son of John Watts, Millbank Street, Westminster, and Catherine ---; b. 10 Feb 1803; adm. 19 Sep 1814; at Haileybury Coll. 1821-2; Cadet, EICS Madras 1822; Cornet, 4th Light Cavalry 2 May 1823; Lieut., 21 Feb 1825; 8th Light Cavalry 29 Jul 1825; d. at Kamptee, near Nagpur, India 5 Oct 1827.

WATTS, HARRY; b.; adm. 14 Oct 1780.

WATTS, GEOFFREY, fourth son of Sir John Watts, Kt, Lord Mayor of London, and Margaret, dau. of Sir James Hawes, Kt, Lord Mayor of London; b. ; at school under Camden (Alum. Cant. ); Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 1601, matr. Mich. 1601; BA 1604/5; migr. to Jesus Coll. ; MA 1608 (incorp. Oxford 12 Jul 1608); BD 1615; Fellow, Jesus Coll. 1606-19; ordained; Vicar of Clavering, Essex 1616 [check] – c. 1643, res. ; Vicar of Great Leighs, Essex, from 14 Dec 1619; m. Fortune, dau. of William Glascock, Felsted, Essex; buried Great Leighs, Essex 5 Jan 1662/3.

Watts, Frances; sister of John Taylor, St Mary at Hill, City of London, vintner (as shown by her will and accompanying affidavit) ; aged 35 in 1733 ; kept a boarding house in Little Dean’s Yard from 1738 (previously occupied by Mrs.Beresford) (she directed in her will that “the house I live in” should be sold after her death) ; first two of seventy-one recorded boarders adm. Apr 1738, last three recorded boarders adm. Oct 1752, but her boarding house may be presumed to have continued to operate until her death ; her will expresses her wish to be buried in Barnes, Surrey, where she owned two copyhold messuages ; she bequeathed 10 guineas each for mourning rings to William Markham (qv), Head Master, Peirson Lloyd (qv), Under Master, and Charles Cooper (qv), “the usher of my house” ; m.1st, by c.1720, William Cox, surgeon, with whom she emigrated to Savannah, Georgia, North America, 1733 (but who d. there 1733) ; m.2nd, 1 Jun 1734 James Watt (or Watts), Lieut. South Carolina Independent Company (but who d. same month, she returning to England) ; d. Jan 1755 (London Evening Post, issue for 11-14 Jan 1755) (will dated 25 Jun 1754, with codicil 19 Dec 1754, proved PCC 24 Jan 1755, as of Frances Watts, Little Dean’s Yard, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, widow).