Richard Watts (died 24 March 1844) was an early nineteenth-century English printer, located in Crown Court, Temple Bar, London.
[1] Watts was the printer for the University of Cambridge from 1802 until 1809,[2] (a switch to stenotype was made by the school in 1804).
[2] He left Cambridge in 1809 and set up a printing workshop in Broxbourne, subsequently setting up the Oriental Type-Foundry on Temple Bar, London, in 1816.
Watts developed a reputation as "a cutter and founder of Oriental and foreign characters, of which he accumulated a considerable collection".
[4] Watts died age 70 and is buried in All Saints' Church, Edmonton.