{{short description|English medical doctor and public health official}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}} {{Use British English|date=October 2017}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | country = England | fullname = Joseph Riley Watson | birth_date = 28 March 1859 | birth_place = Steeton, Yorkshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|10|18|1859|3|28|df=yes}} | death_place = Harrogate, Yorkshire, England | batting = Unknown | bowling = Unknown | role = | family = | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1882 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 2 | runs1 = 2 | bat avg1 = 0.66 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 1 | deliveries1 = 32 | wickets1 = 0 | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | date = 25 January | year = 2023 | source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/joseph-watson-22782 Cricinfo }}
'''Joseph Riley Watson''' (28 March 1859 – 18 October 1915) was an English medical doctor and public health official who was also in his youth a cricketer who played first-class cricket in two matches in the 1880s.<ref name="ca">{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33670/33670.html| title = Riley Watson | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | accessdate = 20 July 2017}}</ref> He was born at Steeton-in-Craven, Yorkshire and died at Harrogate, also in Yorkshire.
Watson was educated at Pannal College, Harrogate and then at a succession of medical training establishments and universities: The Yorkshire College of Science (later Leeds University); University College, London; Christ's College, Cambridge; and then the University of Edinburgh.<ref name="venn">{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri06univuoft#page/372/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: Joseph Riley Watson | author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 6| publisher = www.archive.org/Cambridge University Press | page = 373 | accessdate = 21 July 2017}}</ref> He graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1884 and followed that with a medical degree from Edinburgh in 1887.<ref name="venn"/> He was a Doctor of Public Health from 1894 and a member of the Royal College of Physicians. He practised in Harrogate where he later became the medical officer of health for the borough of Harrogate.<ref name="venn"/>
As a cricketer, Watson played in one first-class match for Cambridge University against the Australians in 1882, in which he batted at No 11 and bowled just eight overs without success; in 1888 he played a further single game for "An England XI", an end-of-season match against that year's Australians at Harrogate, and did not bowl at all.<ref name="ca"/> He scored a single run in each of his two games.
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