Bertrand Watson

Sir John Bertrand Watson (16 May 1878 – 16 February 1948) was an English lawyer, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Liberal Party politician.

[2] Later in 1941, on the death of the sitting Chief Magistrate, Sir Robert Dummett, Watson was appointed to succeed him.

[5] At the 1922 general election he faced a three-cornered contest against a Labour candidate Frederick Fox Riley (later MP for Stockton-on-Tees from 1929 to 1931) and an Independent Liberal, Robert Strother Stewart, a supporter of H H Asquith.

However he chose not to stand at the 1923 general election when Stewart won the seat, beating future Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

He collapsed and died half an hour after the luncheon adjournment at Bow Street on 16 February 1948 at the age of 69 years.