William Watson, Baron Watson
- William Watson, Baron Watson
William Watson, Baron Watson (1827 -14 September 1899) was a Scottish judge.
Watson was educated at the University of Glasgow and Edinburgh University (LLD Edin 1876) and became an advocate in 1851. He appeared for defence of Dr Edward William Pritchard, the poisoner, in 1865.
He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in 1874 and promoted to Lord Advocate in 1876.
He was Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 1875, Member of Parliament for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities from 1876 to 1880. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1878 and an Ordinary Lord of Appeal and additionally a Life peer as Baron Watson, of Thankerton in the County of Lanark, in 1880.
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