Robert Boog Watson

Robert Boog Watson FRSE (26 September 1823 – 23 June 1910) was a Scottish malacologist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland best known as the author of the report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected during the H.M.S.

His brother, Sir Patrick Heron Watson was an eminent surgeon and a pioneer of modern dentistry.

During his stay in Edinburgh he lived with his brother Patrick Heron Watson at Hope Street off Charlotte Square.

[9] He died in Edinburgh and is buried in the south-west section of Grange Cemetery with his wife Janet.

He was related through the marriage of Jane Elisabeth Boog to the Very Rev Matthew Leishman of Govan Old Parish Church.