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Horace Newbegin Watts

1833–1916

Surgeon. MD, St Andrews, 1862. Assistant house surgeon, Great Northern Hospital, London; assistant medical officer, County Lunatic Asylum, Nottingham; colonial surgeon, Falkland Islands (Port Stanley), from 1865. Student at Lincoln’s Inn, 1880; called to the bar, 1883.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/1615/31/31)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 November 2017)

Illustrated London News, 27 May 1865, p. 495

Medical directory 1867

Men-at-the-bar

Norfolk, England, bishop’s transcripts, 1579–1935 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 November 2017)

Bibliography

Medical directory: The London medical directory … every physician, surgeon, and general practitioner resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical directory. London: John Churchill. 1848–60. The London & provincial medical directory, inclusive of the medical directory for Scotland, and the medical directory for Ireland, and general medical register. London: John Churchill. 1861–9. The medical directory … including the London and provincial medical directory, the medical directory for Scotland, the medical directory for Ireland. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1870–1905.

Men-at-the-bar: Men-at-the-bar: a biographical hand-list of the members of the various inns of court, including Her Majesty’s judges, etc. By Joseph Foster. London: Reeves & Turner. 1885.

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