John King Watts
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| Born | 1808 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1884 | ||||||||||
| Residence | St Ives Hunts [1862] | ||||||||||
| Occupation | legal | ||||||||||
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Solicitor
scrutineer of the ballot 1856; representative at BA at Manchester 61; delegate to BA at Cambridge 62
Notes From Elsewhere
Mr. John King Watts, solicitor, of St. Ives, has been committed for trial the Huntingdon magistrates on a charge fraudulently. inducing Mrs. Harris, a client of ...
FATHER of Walter Theodore Watts, b. 1832
John King Watts, a solicitor, who was born in St. Ives in 1808, and practised there till his death in 1884, was a well-known figure in scientific circles, and one of the earliest Fellows of the Geographical Society. Of more recent remembrance is Walter Theodore Watts Dunton, the literary critic and friend and housemate of A. C. Swinburne, who was born at St. Ives in 1832. He left St. Ives and practised for a few years as a solicitor in London before he became leading literary critic on The Athenæum, and gave himself entirely to literary work until his death.