Victor Hugo Watson CBE (26 September 1928 – 25 February 2015) was a British businessman and philanthropist.
Waddingtons employed over 3,000 people, mainly in Leeds, and were involved in printing, packaging, games and playing cards.
Victor Hugo Watson was born on 26 September 1928 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.
[4] His paternal grandfather, also named Victor Hugo Watson, acquired the rights to the board game Monopoly from Parker Brothers in 1934.
[3] He served on the Boards of Directors of Yorkshire Television and the Leeds and Holbeck Building Society.
[2] Additionally, he served as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Gateways School in Harewood and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Martin House Hospice, a children's hospice in Wetherby.
[2] He died on 25 February 2015, aged 86 after a lengthy illness of Parkinson's disease.