{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Rear-Admiral |name = Burges Watson |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CVO}} |birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1846|09|24}} |death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|1902|09|21|1846|09|24}} |birth_place= |death_place= Malta |image= Burges Watson.png |caption= |nickname= |allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |service_years= |rank= Rear-Admiral |branch= 23px Royal Navy |commands=HMS ''Leander''<br>HMS ''Royal Oak''<br>Pembroke Dockyard<br>Malta Dockyard |unit= |battles= |awards= Commander of the Royal Victorian Order |other_work= }} Rear-Admiral '''Burges Watson''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CVO}} (24 September 1846 – 21 September 1902<ref name=WWW>"Watson, Rear-Adm. Burges, (24 Sept. 1846–21 Sept. 1902)." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. Oxford University Press.</ref>) was a Royal Navy officer who became Admiral Superintendent, Malta Dockyard.
==Naval career== Watson entered the Royal Navy in 1860, was promoted to lieutenant in 1866, and to commander in 1879.<ref name=TTobit />
Promoted to captain on 31 December 1885,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25545|page=7|date=1 January 1886}}</ref> Watson became commanding officer of the cruiser HMS ''Leander'' in February 1889 and commanding officer of the battleship HMS ''Royal Oak'' in January 1896.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/ROYAL%20NAVY%20WARSHIPS.pdf |title=Captains commanding Royal Navy Warships |accessdate=1 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714184102/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/ROYAL%20NAVY%20WARSHIPS.pdf |archivedate=14 July 2015 }}</ref> He went on to be Captain Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard from October 1896 until October 1899. A naval Aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria from 1898 to 1899, he was promoted to flag rank as rear-admiral on 25 August 1899,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27119|page=5814|date=22 September 1899}}</ref> and appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) the same year.<ref name=WWW /> The following year, he was appointed Admiral Superintendent, Malta Dockyard in February 1900.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=23 January 1900 |page=12 |issue=36046}}</ref> When Lord Charles Beresford resigned as Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet in January 1902, Watson was appointed to succeed him, taking over the battleship HMS ''Ramillies'' as his flag ship.<ref>The Navy List. (May, 1902). p. 216.</ref>
Watson was landed at Malta on 19 September 1902 due to a severe attack of pneumonia, and died there on 21 September 1902.<ref name=TTobit>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Obituary -Rear-Admiral Burges Watson|date=22 September 1902 |page=4 |issue=36879}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Burges-Watson-Rear-Admiral-R-N/6000000046696886889|title=Burges Watson, Rear Admiral R.N|publisher=Geni|accessdate=10 May 2018}}</ref> He was buried at the old naval cemetery at Bighi two days later.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=24 September 1902 |page=4 |issue=36881}}</ref>
==Family== Wilson married, in 1882, Marie Thérèse Fisher, daughter of homeopathic doctor Carl Fischer.<ref name=WWW /> The pair's eldest son, Fischer Watson, was born on 3 September 1884 and also became a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersW2.html |title=Fischer Watson|publisher=Unit Histories|access-date=10 June 2024}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Charles J Balfour}} {{s-ttl|title=Captain-Superintendent, Pembroke Dockyard|years=1896–1899}} {{s-aft|after=Charles James Barlow}} {{s-bef|before=Rodney Lloyd}} {{s-ttl|title=Admiral Superintendent, Malta Dockyard|years=1900–1902}} {{s-aft|after=James Hammet}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Watson, Burges}} Category:1846 births Category:1902 deaths Category:Royal Navy admirals Category:Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order