ROBERT WATSON BIOGRAPHY

ROBERT WATSON BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.

WATSON, ROBERT (1730-1781). —Historian, s. of an apothecary in St. Andrews, where and at Edin. and Glasgow, he was ed. He became Prof. of Logic, and afterwards Principal of St. Salvador's Coll., at St. Andrews, and wrote a History of Philip II. of Spain, and part of a continuation on Philip III., which were long standard works.