Samuel Watson (sculptor)

Samuel Watson (1662–1715), an English sculptor in wood and stone, was a native of Heanor, Derbyshire.

His grandson, White Watson, stated in a memoir that Samuel Watson "was a pupil of Mr. Charles Oakey, carver, in the parish of St Martin's in the Fields.

"[1] Oakey was employed by the 1st Duke of Beaufort on the remodelling of Badminton House in 1683.

[1] Late in life, Watson married Katherine Greensmith (c. 1679–1739) from Pilsley, a Chatsworth estate village.

His sons, Henry and Samuel II, both trained as carvers and so did his grandson, White Watson,[1] who designed a monument for his grandfather in Heanor Church.