Chief Executive of British Airways and then Chairman of Thames Water. Obituary at the Independent.
The Independent of 4 May 1993 reported that his body was spotted 50 yards down river of Westminster Bridge. "Sir Roy, 67, who had been diagnosed as suffering from Parkinson's disease, was last seen by his chauffeur who left him outside his luxury riverside flat in Battersea, south-west London, on Tuesday of last week."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Roy Watts
A very sad plaque. Watts's home was somewhere in this area but his body was a...
Politician, philanthropist and slavery abolitionist. Born in High Street, Hull. Entered parliament in 1780 and became a close ally of William Pitt the Younger. He converted to evangelical Christian...
Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1923. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Biographer. Date of birth approximate. He married Sir Thomas More’s daughter Margaret in 1521 and wrote More’s biography. He was a member of several parliaments between 1529 and 1558.
Simon de Montfort, having seized power from King Henry III, called a Parliament with a wider representation catchment than the usual knights and barons; he summoned representatives of cities and bo...
Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, was an English industrialist, economist, civil servant, statistician, writer, and banker. Born Hampstead/Kilburn (depending on source). 1926 he became the fir...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
George was Minnie's father-in-law. Minnie's date of death is here given as 1992, while the ODNB, for example, gives it as 1922.
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Poet. Born Cornhill. Wrote ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ and the lesser-known ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes’ about Horace Walpole's cat. Died Cam...
One of a list of 26 researchers involved in researching Hester Leggatt's background.
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