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Davy Family of Fordton, Crediton, Devon

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73. John Alexander Gascoigne Watson

A founder of the city of Salisbury (Harrare), Rhodesia.

Jean Anna Grimond

Daughter of David Grimond of Blairgowrie, Scotland and Frances Edith O'Moore Baxter, his wife. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies College.

114. Agatha Beatrice Watson

Compiler of the Watson, Gascoigne, Newton and Goodhall family trees.

Of Short Hills, 28 Sandy Lodge Road, Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.


Alan Young McPeake

Of Dublin and Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Served with the Connaught Rangers, Western Front, 1918.
Publisher.

116. John Newton Watson

Killed at Barnet riding a motor cycle.

117. Michael Watson

Educated: Highgate, London.
R.E.C.C.E. Corps, killed at the Battle of El Alamein.

Arthur John Robert Wilson

Son of Sir Arthur and Lady Wilson, India Office.

119. Arthur Francis Hemming C.B.E., C.M.G.

Educated at Rugby; Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 2nd Lt., 3rd Bn. Duke of Wellington's Regiment, Aug. 1914; transfered to 2nd Bn., Dec. 1914; served British Expeditionary Force, France, 1914-16; Captain, 1916; severely wounded July 1916; retired on account of wounds, Dec 1918; appointed to Home Civil Service and assigned to the Treasury, Dec 1919; Assistant Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Rt. Hon. J. Austen Chamberlain, M.P.), Jan-Nov 1920; Principal Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ireland (Rt. Hon. Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bart., K.C., M.P.), 1920-1922; Acting Principal, Irish Branch, Home Office and Colonial Office, 1922-24; Principal Private Secretary to Rt. Hon. J.R. Clynes, M.P., Lord Privy Seal and deputy Leader of the House of Commons, Jan-Nov 1924; Acting Principal, Mercantile Marine Department, Board of Trade, 1924-25; Asst. Sec. to Committee of Civil Research, 1925-1930, and to Economic Advisory Council, 1930; Secretary, Economic Advisory Council, 1930-39; Principal Asst. Sec. War Cabinet Offices, 1939-41; Administrative Head, Economic Section, War Cabinet Secretariat, 1939-40,and Central Statistical Office, 1941; Principal Officer, No. 6 Civil Defence Region, 1941; Principal Asst. Sec. (Fire Guard), Ministry of Home Security, 1941-44; Director of Petrol Rationing, Ministry of Fuel and Power, 1944-45; Pricipal Assistant Secretary (Economics and Statistics), Ministry of Fuel and Power, 1945-46, and Under Secretary, 1946; Joint Sec. Imperial Committee on Economic Consultation and Co-operation, 1933; Secretary to Spanish Non-Intervention Committee, 1936-39, and to Spanish Non-Intervention Board, 1937-39; Special Mission to General Franco, 1938; Secretary International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature since 1936 ; Treasurer, Royal Entomological Society of London, 1929-39.
Publications: The Generic Names of the Holarctic Butterflies, 1934; Hubner, 1937; papers on entomological subjects.
Address: 28 Park Village East, Regent's Park London N.W.1 Telephone: Euston 7373.
Club: Oxford and Cambridge.
C.M.G. 1938, C.B.E. 1923.

WHO'S WHO 1949.


Vera Montague Murray

Marriage dissolved in 1933.

121. Peter Hemming Reverend

Priest. Ordained in 1931. Vicar of Shenley, Buckinghamshire.

77. Isaac Newton Henry Watson Captain

SERVICE:

14 April 1900: Embodied, Falmouth Division, Royal Engineers.

18 July 1900: 2nd Lieutenant, Falmouth Division, Royal Engineers.

28 June 1901: 2nd Lieutenant, R.G. Regiment, Malta.

18 August 1902: 2nd Lieutenant, Falmouth Division, Royal Engineers.

20 May 1903: Lieutenant, Falmouth Division, Royal Engineers.

1 April 1907: Falmouth Division, Royal Engineers, disbanded.

ADDRESSES:

1902: 10 Western Terrace, Falmouth, Cornwall.
1910: Boslowick, Budock, Falmouth, Cornwall.
1931: Swiss Cottage, Lymington, Hampshire.


123. Gwendoline Marguerite Watson

Painter.

James Craig

Educated at Edinburgh Academy, Rugby and Christchurch College, Oxford. Barrister, Inner Temple.

79. Richard Talbot Watson

of Honeybrook House, Kidderminster.

Harriet Elizabeth Morton

Daughter of James Morton of Ombersley, Worcestershire.

127. Helen Louisa Watson

Spinster.

128. Mabel Gladys Watson

Spinster.

129. Charles Morton Watson

Lived in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.

130. Louis Talbot Watson

Killed during W.W.I.

Ada Frances Grosvenor

of Broome House, Stourbridge.

81. John Harold Watson

Mayor of Kidderminster, 1916.

82. George Talbot Watson

Emigrated to South Dakota, U.S.A, before 1890. Later settled in Owatonna, Steele County, Minnesota.

Mary Frances Heit Kemp

Maiden name given as MATHOWICK on Gertrude's birth certificate.

Was married previously and had a daughter : Irene H. Lormer, living at 116W70, Seattle, Washington on June 12, 1947.


83. Walter Herbert Watson

of Bradford.

84. Alfred Talbot Watson

of Bradford. Emigrated to Minnesota, U.S.A.,  in about 1900.

Mary Jane Lee

From the U.S.A.