William Watson

William Watson was a Scottish lawyer. He was the resident Sheriff-substitute at Aberdeen for thirty-seven years, from 1829 to 1866, and the maternal grandfather of the poet Marion Angus.

Watson was born in Lanarkshire, the son of a sheep farmer. He was educated in Edinburgh and during his legal apprenticeship he moved in literary circles and developed a love of the theatre. He was liberal in politics and a social reformer who established the industrial school movement in Aberdeen in an attempt to improve conditions for poor children.