1701 – 7 January 1766) of Grindon Bridge, Northumberland, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1740 to 1765.
He voted regularly with the Government and in 1741 was appointed deputy commissary for Danish and Hessian troops in British pay.
[1] Watson was returned unopposed as MP for Berwick at the 1754 British general election.
This pension lapsed when Newcastle, who awarded it, left office and Watson spent years trying to recover it.
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