Charles Watson

Vice-Admiral Charles Watson (1714 – 16 August 1757) was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Newfoundland and died in Calcutta, India.

Origins He was the son of John Watson by his wife the sister of Sir Charles Wager (1666–1743), First Lord of the Admiralty. The armorials used by his son the 1st baronet (Argent, on a chevron engrailled azure between three martlets sable as many crescents or ) are a differenced version of the arms of the Watson family, Marquess of Rockingham, and thus the family may have been a cadet branch of the latter.

Naval career Watson entered the navy as a volunteer per order on in 1728. He was promoted lieutenant in 1734 and promoted captain and given command of in 1738. Their son and heir was: Sir Charles Watson, 1st Baronet, of Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, created a baronet in 1760.