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Christopher Watson

1545 – 1581

English historian and translator

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Lived 1545 – 1581 (aged 35–36). Christopher Watson was a translator.

Christopher Watson (died 1581) was an English historian and translator.

Life A native of Durham, Watson was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1566. For some time he resided with Thomas Gawdy, then recorder of Norwich, at his residence Gawdy Hall in Harleston, Norfolk. He commenced M.A. in 1569, and his name occurs in the list of the opponents of the new statutes of the university in 1572.

Watson was ordained deacon at Norwich in 1574. It was during his Harleston period that Watson appears to have composed this translation. A licence was granted by the Stationers' Company to Thomas Hackett in 1565; but no copy of an impression bearing that date is known to exist. Catechisme, London, 1579.

A tract Briefe Principles of Religion for the Exercise of Youth: done by C. W. (London, 1581), has been assigned to Watson (in the British Museum Catalogue). He also made collections on the history of Durham, which are in the Cottonian manuscripts.

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1545
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1581
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St John's College

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English historian and translator

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Christopher Watson died in 1581.

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