Albert Watson (academic)


Albert Watson was an Oxford college head in the 19th-century.
Watson was born in Astley, Worcestershire and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. A classicist, he was Fellow of Brasenose from 1852 to 1886. He was a Tutor from 1854 to 1867; a Lecturer from 1867 to 1870; and Bursar
from 1871 until his election as Principal of Brasenose in 1886. He resigned in 1889; and died in 1904.