White Watson
Derbyshire geologist · Scientists · Lived 1760 to 1835 · aged 75
White Watson was an early English geologist, sculptor, stonemason and carver, marble-worker and mineral dealer.
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A cross section of Derbyshire geology made from sections of rock by White Watson. Now in Derby Museum.
Henry Watson 1714?-1786 - image dated to c. 1800
White Watson gravestone in the churchyard of All Saints' Church, Bakewell, UK
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About this person
In common with many learned people of his time, he was skilled in a number of artistic and scientific areas, becoming a writer, poet, journalist, teacher, botanist and gardener as well as a geologist and mineralogist. He kept extensive diaries and sketchbooks of his observations on geology, fossils and minerals, flora and fauna, and published a small but significant and influential number of geological papers and catalogues. As an artist he was well known locally for his silhouettes, both on paper and as marble inlays.
