NameSir William WATSON MD FRS, 8530
Birth1737
Death1796
Notes for Sir William WATSON MD FRS
Born September 1744 London
Marriage Christiana Barclay
about 1772 (Age 27)
1778 (Age 33) Published Published on the blue shark in the Philosophical Transactions
1785 (Age 40) Published A Treatise on Time, 'a philosophical essay dedicated to Herschel and heavily indebted to Joseph Priestley [I26113], another member of the Bath Society' (ODNB)
6 March 1796 (Age 51) Knighted
1801 (Age 56) Mayor of Bath
Occupation Physician with a practice in Bath, natural philosopher, member of the Bath Philosophical Society, close friend of William Herschel (I1511); see ODNB
Death 15 November 1824 (Age 80) Bath, Somerset