Frederick Beilby Watson

Sir Frederick Beilby Watson, KCH, FRS (1773–11 July 1852) was a British courtier.

[2] On 1 July 1815, he was appointed Assistant Private Secretary to The Prince Regent.

[4] He was promoted to Knight Commander and appointed a Knight Bachelor in 1827 and became Master of the Household that year, an office he held during the reigns of George IV, William IV and the early days of Victoria.

[1][5] In 1843, he anonymously had published Religious and Moral Sentences Culled from the Works of Shakespeare, Compared with Sacred Passages Drawn from Holy Writ.

[6] On 11 July 1852, Watson died at his home on New Place, St John's Wood, aged 80.