WATKINS, RICHARD, son of Rev. Henry Watkins DD, Vicar of Sutton under Brailes, Warwicks., and Anne, widow of Richard Love; b.; adm.; KS 1637; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1640, matr. 4 Jun 1641, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1644; MA 1647 (incorp. Cambridge 1650); submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 1648 (Burrows, 154, 158); ordained; Vicar of Ambrosden, Oxfordshire 1655-9; Rector of Whichford, Warwicks., from 1659; Rector of Bourton on the Hill, Gloucs., from 5 May 1679; wrote an account of the recovery of Anne Green, who had been hanged at Oxford 14 Dec 1650, entitled Newes from the Dead, 1651, to which were appended poems on the subject by various Oxford scholars; m. Elizabeth Hyckes; d. 11 Feb 1707/8.

WATKINS, ROBERT; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1631, but was never adm.

WATSON, GEORGE, son of George Watson, York; b.; adm.; KS 1700; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1703, adm. 28 May 1703, aged 19, scholar 28 Apr 1704, matr. 1704; 9th in “ordo” 1706/7; BA 1706/7; ordained deacon Jan 1708/9, priest Mar 1708/9 (both Norwich); Rector of Buxhall, Suffolk 1709-10, res. [note will Rev. George Watson, Wood Norton, Norfolk, proved PCC 9 May 1750]

WATSON, RICHARD; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1610, Westminster Student Jan 1610/1-20, Faculty Student from 1620; BA 1614; MA 1617; d. 1635.

WATSON, SAMUEL, son of James Watson, St. Andrew’s, Holborn; b.; adm. 9 Sep 1776; KS (aged 13) 1777; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1781, matr. 30 Jun 1781, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1781 – void by marriage 13 Oct 1787; BA 1785; MA 1792; BD and DD 1806; ordained; Vicar of Whitchurch, Bucks., 22 Dec 1810-2; Rector of Gravesend, Kent, from 18 Jul 1811; Senior Chaplain, Ordnance Dept., Woolwich, from 1 Jul 1812; m.; d. 9 Apr 1837.

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.

WATTES, ROBERT; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-3 (Chapter Muniments).

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

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.

WAVERLEY, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1625, adm. scholar 1626, matr. Easter 1626; 5th in “ordo” 1629/30; BA 1629/30; MA 1633.