R. Watts


Richard Watts was an early nineteenth-century English printer, located in Crown Court, Temple Bar, London. His work is identified under the signature R. Watts.
Watts was the printer for the University of Cambridge from 1802 until 1809,. He left Cambridge in 1809 and set up a printing workshop in Broxbourne, subsequently setting up the Oriental Type-Foundry on Temple Bar, London, in 1816.
Watts developed a reputation as "a cutter and founder of Oriental and foreign characters, of which he accumulated a considerable collection". His Oriental Type-Foundry was also the oriental printer for the Church Missionary Society, the Bible Society, the Prayer Book Society, and the Homily Society.
Watts's son, William Mavor Watts, took over the printing business in Crown Court, Temple Bar.
Watts died age 70 and is buried in All Saints' Church, Edmonton.

Apprentices to Richard Watts