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| Rundle Burges Watson R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Eldest son of Captain Joshua Rowley Watson (1772-1810). | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 1809 | Born | ||
| 24 December 1842 | C.B. (Companion of the Bath), for service in China | ||
| 1 February 1845 | Married Helen, second daughter of John Bettington of Pittville | ||
| May 1856 | 5 July 1860 | Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria (until de died) | |
| 5 July 1860 | Died (while serving as Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard) | ||
| Entry in O'Byrnes 1849 'Naval Biographical Dictionary' | |||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 1 November 1821 | Entered Navy | ||
| 7 October 1829 | Lieutenant | ||
| 6 May 1841 | Commander | ||
| 23 December 1842 | Captain | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 29 October 1841 | 22 December 1842 | Commander in Modeste, East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war) | |
| 28 February 1846 | 9 October 1849 | Captain in Brilliant, Cape of Good Hope | |
| 17 December 1852 | 5 February 1857 | Captain in Impérieuse (from commissioning at Woolwich until paying off at Portsmouth), Woolwich, then Portsmouth, then North America and West Indies, then (from 1854, as senior frigate captain) in the Baltic during the Russian War, then (March 1856, after leading the 1856 'advanced squadron' to the Baltic) North America | |
| 21 July 1857 | May 1858 | Commodore in Chesapeake (from commissioning at Chatham), East Indies and China, until resigning because of ill health | |
| 3 June 1859 | 5 July 1860 | Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard (until he died) | |
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