Robert Hodgson Watson (12 October 1896 – 26 March 1959) was an Australian politician who served as a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
[1] Watson was born in Yorkshire, England, the son of William Watson and his wife Elizabeth Ann (née Forster) and came to Australia at an early age.
[1] On 8 December 1920 Watson married Ethel Agnes Mutch[1] (died 1981)[2] and together had two daughters.
He died in Coorparoo, Brisbane, in March 1959[1] and was cremated at the Mt Thompson Crematorium.
[5] He stood at the 1956 Queensland state election but was again beaten by English, but at the state election the next year he once again won Mulgrave, beating English who by now had joined the Queensland Labor Party.