James Watson (Shrewsbury MP)

James Watson (1817 – 5 July 1895)[1] was an English merchant, dairy herdsman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.

[2] In 1875, he purchased Berwick House near Shrewsbury and moved in four years later after extensive reconstruction.

There he established one of the first herds of Jersey cows in England.

Watson married Jane Willan in 1856 and they had a daughter Florence.

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