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unusual facts about William Watson



Bye Plot

William Watson took the "appellant" side in the Archpriest Controversy, hostile to George Blackwell who had been appointed by the Holy See.

Stephen Phillips

See the section on Stephen Phillips in Poets of the Younger Generation, by William Archer (1902); also the articles on Tragedy and Mr Stephen Phillips, by William Watson in the Fortnightly Review (March 1898); The Poetry of Mr Stephen Phillips, in the Edinburgh Review (January 1900); Mr Stephen Phillips, in the Century (January 1901), by Edmund Gosse; and Mr Stephen Phillips, in the Quarterly Review (April 1902), by Arthur Symons.

William Henry Watson

His grandson William Watson-Armstrong was ennobled as Baron Armstrong in 1903.


see also

Magnolia × wieseneri

A chance seedling, from the garden of Sir Peter Smithers at Vico Morcote in Switzerland, with more vigorous growth and larger flowers has been described as Magnolia "William Watson".

Samuel Tudor

With Watson, Tudor had 2 sons, William Watson, who married Mary Dalrymple Bruce, great granddaughter of General Samuel Barwick II, Governor of Barbados; and Henry Samuel Tudor, who married Mary Rowe Bradley, daughter of U. S. Senator Stephen Rowe Bradley, and sister of William Czar Bradley, U.S. Representative, both of Vermont.

William Watson Andrews

William Watson Andrews (1810–1897) was an American clergyman of the Catholic Apostolic Church.