{{Short description|Royal Navy vice-admiral}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Vice-Admiral |name = Sir Dymock Watson |honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB|CBE|DL}} |birth_date=5 April 1904<ref>{{cite book |title=Who's Who of Southern Africa |date=1959 |publisher=Ken Donaldson (Pty.) Limited |page=666 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8h0UAAAAIAAJ|language=en}}</ref> |death_date=3 February 1988 (aged 84) |birth_place= Farnham, Surrey |death_place= Brecknock, Powys, Wales |image= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |service_years= 1918–1961 |rank= Vice-Admiral |commands={{HMS|Illustrious|87|6}}<br/>South Atlantic and South America Station |branch=23px Royal Navy |unit= |battles=World War II |awards= Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath<br/>Commander of the Order of the British Empire |other_work= }} Vice-Admiral '''Sir Robert Dymock Watson''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB|CBE|DL}} (5 April 1904 – 3 February 1988) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South America Station.
==Naval career== Watson joined the Royal Navy in 1918.<ref name=lh>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/WATSON5.shtml Sir Robert Dymock Watson] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives</ref> He served in World War II as Assistant Director of Plans on the Joint Planning Staff from 1944.<ref name=lh/> After the War, he was appointed to the 1st Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean Fleet and then, in 1950, became Director of Plans at the Admiralty.<ref name=lh/> He went on to be Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier {{HMS|Illustrious|87|6}} in 1953 and Flag Officer, Flotillas in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1954.<ref name=lh/> He was made Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport in 1955 and Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South America Station in 1958.<ref name=lh/> He made an official visit to Ladysmith<ref>[http://www.naval-review.co.uk/issues/1959-4.pdf Naval Review, Vol. XLVII, No. 4, October, 1959, p. 473]</ref> before retiring in 1961.<ref name=lh/>
He lived at Trebinshwyn in Brecon.<ref>[http://www.william1.co.uk/t43.htm Tudor 43]</ref>
==Personal life== His grandson is the actor and comedian Humphrey Ker, who based his 2011 Edinburgh Fringe show ''Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher!'' on Watson's exploits in the Second World War.<ref>{{cite web |title=Humphrey Ker Is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher! Upstairs at the Three and Ten, Brighton, June 16 |url=https://www.theargus.co.uk/leisure/stage/9085468.humphrey-ker-is-dymock-watson-nazi-smasher-upstairs-at-the-three-and-ten-brighton-june-16/ |website=The Argus |access-date=27 November 2021}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box | title=Fourth Sea Lord | before=Sir Frederick Parham | after=Sir Gordon Hubback | years=1955–1958}} |- {{s-bef | before=Sir Geoffrey Robson}} {{s-ttl | title=Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station | years=1958–1960}} {{s-aft | after=Sir Nicholas Copeman}} {{end}}
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