About William Watson
Lived 1744 – 1824 (aged 79–80). William Watson was a British naturalist and politician.
Sir William Watson (1744–1824) was an English physician and naturalist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767 and knighted in 1796. He was mayor of Bath in 1801.
He was the son of Sir William Watson the physicist, educated at Charterhouse School, and Queens' College and Gonville and Caius College of the University of Cambridge. He graduated M.B in 1766 and M.D. in 1771, and went into practice as a physician in Bath.
Watson was a friend and associate of William Herschel, whom he met by chance in Bath in 1779.
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English physician and naturalist (1744-1824)
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William Watson was born in 1744 in London.
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William Watson died on 15 November 1824 in Bath.
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