Watts-Tobin, Richard John, son of Oscar Watts-Tobin MRCS LRCP, gen. med. practitioner, of Fulham, and Ethel Watts FCA, d. of John Watts, police officer; b. 17 Mar. 1934; adm. Sept. 1946 (R), (KS) Sept. 1948; left July 1952; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1952 (open schol. 1951), matric. 1954, BA 1957 (1st class hons Math. Trip. Pt 1, Wrangler Pt 2), res. student 1957, Rouse Ball student 1960, MA PhD 1961; Mullard res. Fellow Selwyn Coll. Camb. 1961; MRC scientific staff 1961-; Fellow Churchill Coll. Camb. 1964; lecturer in Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Lancaster 1967, sen. lecturer 1977-96; MInstP; author of papers on superconductivity theory and theory of electroactive polymers; m. 1963 Mary Elizabeth Ann Watts-Tobin MB BCh, med. practitioner, sister of Martin Lewin Blake Pritchard (qv); d. 26 Apr 2016.
WATTS, WILLIAM, son of Ven. William Watts DD, Rector of St. Alban’s, Wood Street, London, and Archdeacon of Wells, and Dorothy, dau. of Judith Vaughan, widow, Canterbury, Kent; b.; in school lists 1656; BB 1659; an undated petition from his mother to the Governors asks for a Lord’s scholarship for her son “at this time a scholler in Westminster schoole” and “nearely allyed” to the late Archbishop Williams (Chapter Muniments 43102); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Jul 1663, aged 17.
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.