BIOGRAPHY 



FOR the facts and dates in the 

 following short biography I am 

 indebted to the kindness of Forbes 

 Watson's brother, Watson Fother- 

 gill, Esq., of Nottingham, to whom I re- 

 turn my best thanks. 



Forbes Watson was born at Mansfield, 

 Notts, on February 7, 1840. He was 

 educated at a private school at Clapham, 

 and was articled to Dr. Regworth, of 

 Birmingham. He then entered at St. 

 Thomas's Hospital, London, and after a 

 brilliant career as a student there, 1 he 

 was unanimously elected, though only 



1 In 1859, at St. Thomas's, scholar in Physics and 

 Natural History ; in 1859, at Apothecary's Hall, Silver 

 Medal for Botany ; in 1860, at London University, the 

 Gold Medal and Scholarship in Materia Medica and 

 Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and the Gold Medal in 

 Botany ; and in 1861 he was admitted Licentiate of 

 Apothecaries and M.R.C.S. 



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