Thomas Watts (baptised 23 May 1689 – 18 January 1742) was a

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Mitchell Mitchell may refer to: People *Mitchell (surname) *Mitchell (given name) Places Australia * Mitchell, Australian Capital Territory, a light-industrial estate * Mitchell, New South Wales, a suburb of Bathurst * Mitchell, Northern Territo ...

and

Tregony Tregony ( kw, Trerigoni), sometimes in the past Tregoney, is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Tregony with Cuby, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies on the River Fal. In the village there is a post office (now ...

. He was a son of Thomas Watts (1664-1739), vicar of

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, and his wife Audria Oliver (1668-1717). He married first, in 1716, Hannah Seede, widow of James Allen, and second, in 1729, Susannah Gascoyne. Watts was prominent as an academy master in London; as a leading figure in the insurance business at the

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; and as a

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. Watts represented Mitchell in parliament from 1734 to 1741 and Tregony from 1741 until his death the next year.Eveline Cruickshanks, "WATTS, Thomas (d.1742), of Enfield Chase, Mdx.", ''The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1715-1754''.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Watts, Thomas 1742 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1741–1747