Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Edward Watts KCB KCMG (14 February 1858 – 15 October 1934) was a British Army officer who commanded 7th Division and later XIX Corps during the First World War.

He was appointed second-in-command of his battalion on 7 March 1902, and after peace was declared the following month, left South Africa on board the SS Bavarian to arrive in the United Kingdom in June 1902.

[12] He was promoted to substantive colonel that month,[13] and, after coming off the half-pay list, finished his military career as the commander of No.

[17] Shortly after Watts's retirement, the outbreak of the First World War meant that he returned almost immediately to the army.

[23] He later was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant general in February 1917[24] and became GOC of the XIX Corps, which he led for the rest of the war.