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2 unusual facts about Charles Watson


Beilby Thompson

Urged by Rockingham to stand for York (the seat once held by his grandfather) in 1768, his mother objected on grounds of expense.

Thomas Nuthall

Thomas Nuthall (d. 7 March 1775) was an English politician and attorney who played an historic role in the ministries of William Pitt, Lord Bute, and Lord Rockingham.


Battle of Chandannagar

In 1757 war broke out between France and Great Britain, and Colonel Robert Clive of the British East India Company and Admiral Charles Watson of the Royal Navy bombarded and captured Chandannagar on 23 March 1757.

Cragg Vale Coiners

Charles Watson-Wentworth (the Marquess of Rockingham and former Prime Minister) was tasked with hunting down the killers.

Nikolas Schreck

According to Schreck, the murders of Sharon Tate and the others actually resulted from conventional underworld rivalries between drug dealer associates Charles Watson and Jay Sebring, who Schreck contends was linked to the Mafia.

Parliament Act 1782

The Act, which was passed by Rockingham's government at the instance of John Crewe, disqualified all officers of Customs and Excise and the Post Office from voting in parliamentary elections.


see also

1946–47 Toronto Huskies season

Other key figures included team president Charles Watson, co-founders Ben Newman and Salter Hayden and Annis Stukus.