Stephen John Watson

Stephen John Watson FRSE FRIC FRAgS CBE (24 March 1898 – 25 June 1976) was a 20th-century British agriculturalist.

He had an expert knowledge of the nutritional values of hay, straw and silage under different conditions.

[1] In 1947 he founded the Edinburgh Centre of Rural Economy (ECRE) at Bush House, near Penicuik.

[3] In 1936 he became head of Biochemistry and Nutrition at ICI Research Laboratories at Jealott's Hill.

His proposers were James Pickering Kendall, Alexander McCall Smith, Edward Wyllie Fenton and Alfred Cameron.