George Edward Watts

“In memory of Vice Admiral George Edward Watts, Companion of the Bath, Knight of Hanover, Knight Grand Cross of St John of Jerusalem, and of other foreign orders.

He entered the navy 1797, passed through a long course of distinguished service till the peace of 1815. He was upwards of forty times under fire. Received 2 splinter, 8 bayonet and 5 sabre wounds and captured or destroyed 145 vessels.

 

He died at Malvern January 27 1860. Aged 74.

His remains lie interred in a vault at Leckhampton.

 

This tablet is erected by his sorrowing widow.

I will raise him up at the last day St John VI.40

VINCIT AMOR PATRIA (Love of Country Conquers)”

 

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SOURCE: Wikipedia

 

Born: Halifax, Nova Scotia 1786

Son of John Watts and Agnes Skene.

 

Married Jane Waldie (1793 - 1826) on 20 Oct 1817/

 

Married Elizabeth Foulis (Daughter of John Robinson Foulis, of Buckston, Yorkshire) on 18th June 1830

 

Entered the Royal Navy in 1797.

Served in Halifax, the West Indies and the North Sea. Watts commanded HMS Jaseur during the War of 1812, capturing more than 30 ships.

Promoted to Captain in 1814

Rear-admiral in 1849

Vice-Admiral in 1856.

 

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Biography of George Edward Watts Esq., in

(Google Books) "Royal naval biography : or, Memoirs of the services of all the flag-officers, superannuated rear-admirals, retired-captains, post-captains, and commanders, whose names appeared on the Admiralty list of sea officers at the commencement of the present year, or who have since been promoted, illustrated by a series of historical and explanatory notes ... with copious addenda / by John Marshall. " beginning at page 277

 

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"Jane Waldie, afterwards Mrs. Watts (1793–1826), author, born in 1793, showed a taste for painting at an early age, and studied under Nasmyth. She painted many pictures, mostly landscapes inspired by the beauty of the scenery surrounding her home. The figures in three or four of them are the work of Sir Robert Ker Porter [q. v.] As early as 1819 she exhibited at Somerset House a picture called ‘The Temple at Pæstum’ (Addit. MS. 18204). Twenty-eight of her pictures were at Hendersyde Park in 1859, but many had been removed at the time of her marriage, and remained in the possession of her husband. In September 1816 she accompanied her sister Charlotte, with whom she has often been confused, and her brother John abroad, returning to England in August 1817. The result was a book entitled ‘Sketches descriptive of Italy in 1816–17; with a brief Account of Travels in various parts of France and Switzerland’ (London, 1820, 4 vols. 8vo). On 20 Oct. of that year she married Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral) George Augustus (???) Watts of Langton Grange, Staindrop, Darlington (cf. O'Byrne, Naval Biography, p. 1260), where, after losing her only child, she died on 6 July 1826."

wikisource (Charlotte Ann Waldie)

 

A son (William Charles Watts) had been born to George and Jane on 15 Aug 1821. He was christened on 30th October 1821, at Ednam, Roxburgh, Scotland.. He died on 3rd September 1861, at Bad Wellach, Nassau.

 

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