Sir Reginald George Watson was born in June 1862, in
Portland Place
Portland Place is a street in the Marylebone district of central London. Named after the Third Duke of Portland, the unusually wide street is home to BBC Broadcasting House, the Chinese and Polish embassies, the Royal Institute of British A ...
,
Bath
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* Bathing, immersion in a fluid
** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body
** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe
* Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities
Plac ...
. He was the son of General E.D. Watson of
Bengal Army
The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire.
The presidency armies, like the presidencies themselves, belonged to the East India Company (EIC) until the Govern ...
. Watson married Sydney Francis Vivien Presgrave. He died in 1926.
Education
Watson received his education at
Haileybury College Haileybury may refer to:
Australia
* Haileybury (Melbourne), a school in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
**Haileybury Rendall School, an offshoot in Berrimah, North Territory, Australia
China
* Haileybury International School, an international ...
,
Hertford
Hertford ( ) is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county. The parish had a population of 26,783 at the 2011 census.
The town grew around a ford on the River Lea, ne ...
,
England
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and was the Straits Settlements Civil Service cadet in 1883, Private Secretary to Sir
Cecil Clementi Smith
Sir Cecil Clementi Smith (23 December 1840 – 6 February 1916),. was a British colonial administrator.
Background
The son of an Essex rector, John Smith, and his wife Cecilia Susanna Clementi (daughter of Muzio Clementi), Cecil Clementi Smi ...
, 1884- 1885; Officer of Land Office, Malacca (1887),
British Resident of Perak (1913–1919).
References
World Statesmen
1862 births
1926 deaths
History of Perak
Administrators in British Malaya
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
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