Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton

Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton, by John Lavery, 1922
Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton. Portrait sketch by John A M Hay, 1923

Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton (10 February 1873 – 13 March 1922) was an English industrialist from Leeds, Yorkshire.

He was chairman of Joseph Watson & Sons Ltd, soap manufacturers of Leeds, and a director of the London and North-Western Railway, in the late 19th century the largest joint stock company in the world. He became in later life a pioneer of industrialised agriculture in England and a successful racehorse owner.[1] He was step-great-grandfather to David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.[2]

  1. ^ "Watson, Joseph (WT890J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ His 2nd son Hon. Robert Fraser Watson (1900–1975) married in 1961 (as his 2nd wife) Enid Levita (d.1995),(Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.739, Baron Manton; p.577, Mount baronets) formerly wife of Ewen Donald Cameron, grandfather of David Cameron