George Leo Watson (13 December 1909 – 9 January 1988, London) was a British mathematician, who specialized in number theory.
[1] Born in Whitby, Watson matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1927, where he was tutored in mathematics by S. Pollard and A. S. Besicovitch.
After graduating in 1930 he went to India as a member of the Indian Civil Service, serving as a District Commissioner in Nagpur.
After India's independence he returned to England and taught at South London's Acton Technical College (later a part of Brunel University).
[1] In 1968 Watson was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society (LMS) for three of his papers on number theory: Diophantine equations reducible to quadratics (1967), Non-homogeneous cubic equations (1967), and Asymmetric inequalities for indefinite quadratic forms (1968).