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Authorised form of nameWatts; Sir; Philip (1846 - 1926)
Dates1846 - 1926
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDeptford, London, England
Date of birth30 May 1846
Place of death4 Hans Crescent, London
Date of death15/03/1926
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Brompton cemetery, London
ActivityHonours:
KCB 1905
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election14/06/1900
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1915-1916
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1927 vol 113 pp vi-xi, plate, signed by E H T d'E
References:
Vanity Fair 07 April 1910
CodeNA6152
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/525/5/2/11Letter from Philip Watts, 10 Chelsea Embankment to [Dugald] Clerk3 March 1915
MS/525/6/1/7Letter from Phillip Watts, 10 Chelsea Embankment, to Dugald Clerk, 57 & 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields3 December 1914
MS/525/5/4/13Letter from Sir Philip Watts, 11 Windsor Crescent, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to [Dugald] Clerk27 October 1917
MS/525/6/8/21Letter from Philip Watts, Elswick Shipyard, Newcastle upon Tyne, to Dugald Clerk, 57-58 Lincoln's Inn Field, London11 August 1915
NLB/39/220Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Philip Watts, Fellow of the Royal Society12 December 1908
NLB/39/310Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Philip Watts, KCB, Fellow of the Royal Society16 December 1908
NLB/54/875Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Philip Watts, FRS26 October 1917
NLB/62/47Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Philip Watts, FRS23 November 1921
NLB/67/344Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Philip Watts, KCB, FRS8 December 1924
NLB/69/417Copy letter from Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society; to Lady Watts25 March 1926
MS/525/6/1/1'As to a device for catching submarines': report by Philip Watts3 December 1914
MS/525/6/2/26Note on the propulsion of submarines by Philip Watts1914 [?]
MS/525/6/2/27Note on the propulsion of submarines by Philip Watts1914 [?]
EC/1900/16Watts, Sir Philip: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/25/1Referee's report by Philip Watts, on a paper 'Chances of loss of merchant ships' by W S Abell10 September 1918
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