Background
He was born at Water Orton, Warwickshire and died at Singleton, Lancashire.
He was born at Water Orton, Warwickshire and died at Singleton, Lancashire.
Watson was the fifth son of the vicar of Water Orton and was educated at Street Bees School and at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
As a cricketer, he was a right-handed tail-end batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He had no success in any of his three games of first-class cricket, failing to take a single wicket. Although he matriculated in 1900, Watson did not graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cambridge University until 1910.
He then took until 1921 to convert this to a Master of Arts.
Following service in the First World War in the Royal Army Chaplains" Department, he returned to the Fylde area as the vicar of Great Singleton from 1919, and was there up to his death in 1944.
