The Parish Church of St John-at-Hampstead

Johanna WATSON

  • Born: 1754
  • Died: 1811
  • Grave/memorial: XB 180

Widow of Sir James Watson Kt., late one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bengal’. Sir James was the son of a dissenting pastor in Southwark; he became ordained, but forsook the cloth for the law. A protégé of Lord Mansfield, he became MP for Bridport and was knighted on becoming Chief Justice of India in 1794.

Reference: Buried in Hampstead, Camden History Society 1986