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).
WATTES, ROBERT; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-3 (Chapter Muniments).
Watt, Kenneth Strahan, son of John Hansard Strahan Watt (qv); b. 21 Dec. 1909; adm. Sept. 1923 (H); left July 1928; Hertford Coll. Oxf., matric. 1928, BA 1931; Dip. Anthropology 1932; RA 1940-4 (Capt.), wounded (N. Africa); entered civil service 1944, represented Min. of Pensions at War Pension Appeal Tribunals; 1st Sec. Standing Advisory Committee on Artificial Limbs 1946; Min. of Pensions 1947, later DHSS; MBE 1969, retd; m. 25 Feb. 1957 Alice Elizabeth, sister of Richard John Bell Glanville (qv); d. 14 Nov. 1995.
Watt, John Hansard Strahan, brother of James Watt (q.v.); b. Jan. 27, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (G); left Dec. 1893; a publisher's agent, firm, A. P. Watt and Son, Norfolk Street, Strand; m. 1st June 7, 1906, Katherine Dawson, youngest daughter of John Hume, of Glasgow; 2nd Feb. 27, 1934, Gertrude Stuart, eldest daughter of John Herbert Whitehorn, of Hampstead; d. Feb. 15, 1960.
WATT, JAMES, eldest son of Alexander Pollock Watt, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, literary agent, and Bertha, dau. of John Strahan, Tain, Perthshire; b. 12 Mar 1867; adm. 27 May 1880 (G), exhibitioner; QS 1881; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1885 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 2 Oct 1885, matr. 1885; BA 1888; MA 1892; Assistant Master, Bradfield Coll. 1890-1903; Second Master, Royal Naval Coll., Osborne (later at Dartmouth), from 1903; MVO 2 Aug 1910; bequeathed to the School his portrait as a QS by John Pettie RA; d. 8 May 1929.