Sheila Anne Watson (née Atkinson; born 20 May 1953) is a British priest in the Church of England.
She then did a preparatory year of theology at the University of Oxford and then returned to St Andrews for a research degree.
She became a deaconess in 1979, serving in two Scottish parishes (1979–80), North East England (1980–84), London (1984-1996 - where she also gained experience in the diocesan selection and training of clergy and laity at the advisory board of Ministry in Westminster) and Salisbury (1997-2002 where her husband Derek Watson was Dean of Salisbury until his retirement in 2002).
Her husband is also a Church of England priest and was previously Dean of Salisbury.
[6] Watson was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree by the University of Kent in November 2013.