James Watts (Mayor of Manchester)
Sir James Watts Mayor of Manchester (1855–1857), High Sheriff of Lancashire and owner of Abney Hall. He was the owner of S & J Watts Limited, who built the Watts Warehouse[2] on Portland Street.
Watts was born March 1804,Art Treasures Exhibition in 1857, the queen awarded him a knighthood.
Watts married Margaret Ann Buckley. They had one son, James Watts. Watts' descendants include
air commandant Dame Felicity Peake
and her son, Andrew.
References
- ^ Country Life. Country Life, Limited. 18 April 1963. p. 847. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
James, later Sir James of Abney Hall, first saw the light of day on March 6, 1804, at Ardwick....
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- ^ Burke, Bernard (1898). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison & sons. p. 1556. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ^ Chronology of Salford Hundred citing The Annals of Manchester A chronological record from the earliest times to the end of 1885. Edited by William E. A. Axon. 1886. Manchester Central Library, Salford Local History Library
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