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WATSON, CHARLES, son of Rev. John Watson, Prebendary of Westminster, and Eleanor, dau. of Alexander Parker, St. Edmund, Lombard Street, London, member Society of Friends; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1723; in under school lists 1724, 1725; entered Royal Navy as Volunteer, HMS Romney 1728; Lieut., 2 Aug 1734; Cdr.; Post Capt., 14 Feb 1737/8; Rear Adm., 12 May 1748; Vice-Adm. 4 Jun 1756; distinguished himself in engagements off Capre Finisterre and in Bay of Biscay 1747; Commander-in-Chief, Newfoundland station 1748; Commander-in-Chief, East Indies 1754; co-operated with Robert Clive in reducing Gheria, freeing Calcutta, taking Chandernagore and crushing Saraj ud Dowlah; a baronetcy was conferred on his son after his death, in consideration of Watson’s “many great and eminent services”; m. 1741 Rebecca, eldest sister of William Buller (adm. 1743, qv); d. at Calcutta, India 16 Aug 1757. Monument in Westminster Abbey, erected by EI Company. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.