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THE NATURALIST’S LITERARY PORTRAIT-GALLERY* 
(Continued from p. 146.) 
No. III.-— Hewett Cottrell Watson, Esq., F.L.S. 
Hewett Cottrell Watson, whose portrait appears in this number of The 
Naturalist , is the son of Holland Watson, Esq., late of Congleton, in Cheshire, 
and Harriett, daughter of Richard Powell, Esq., formerly of Heaton-Norris, 
near Stockport; and grandson of Mr. James Watson, formerly of Swinton, but 
whose last residence was Millgate Hall, Stockport. 
Mr. Powell, of Heaton-Norris (maternal grandfather of Mr. Hewett Watson), 
was the son of Mr. Powell, of Stannage Park, Radnorshire, whose mother was 
Miss Folliott, daughter and heiress of Lord Folliott, of Ballyshannon, in 
Ireland, the title becoming extinct from the want of male heirs* 
The family predecessors of Mr. H. C. Watson never exhibited any taste for 
scientific pursuits; though several of them have been known as political, clerical, 
and typographical authors. He is great-nephew of Dr. John Watson, Rector of 
Stockport, author of the quarto History of Halifax , and of the Memoirs of the 
Ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey ; the latter publication costing him <£1,200, 
as appears by a memorandum in a MS. Family History, in the hands of his 
great-nephew. This Dr. Watson, of Stockport, was himself the nephew of Dr. 
Joseph Watson, Rector of St. Stephen’s, Wallbrook, in the reign of Queen Anne, 
and brother-in-law to Sir John Blunt, the chief projector of the South-Sea 
scheme. But the parson was more honest than the baronet, for early in life he 
had refused the valuable living of Wilmslow, on scruples of conscience, and 
probably afterwards lost a bishopric through being too honest. Mr. Watson’s 
aunt was married to Dr. Patrick Duigenan, member of the Privy Council 
during the Regency, and a vehement political partizan, known as the author of 
An Answer to Grattan , and other political productions. By intermarriages Mr. 
Watson’s family is also closely connected with that of the celebrated or notorious 
(according to party views) Rev. Gilbert Wakefield, who died in 1801. The 
Rev. gentleman married Mr. W.’s father’s cousin. 
The family name of Hewett was derived from the Hewetts, Hewets, or 
Hewits (see Collins’s Baronetage , Vol. I., p. 447), of Headley Hall, in York¬ 
shire. One of these, John Hewett, Doctor in Divinity, having become obnoxious 
to Cromwell, was found guilty of Carlism , and beheaded on Tower Hill, along 
* This series—including zoologists, botanists, geologists, and meteorologists—will be continued 
every alternate month, each memoir being accompanied by a portrait and autograph.—E d. 
