Sir Frederick Beilby Watson, KCH, FRS (1773–11 July 1852) was a British courtier. Watson was the son of William Watson, who was Ranger of Books (i.e. librarian) at the Treasury, and Elizabeth, née Beilby.''The Gentleman's Magazine'', Volumes 192-193 In 1805 he became Paymaster of the

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. On 1 July 1815, he was appointed Assistant Private Secretary to

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.''The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770-1812: 1811-1812'' Prior to that appointment he had been Private Secretary to the

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. In 1819 Watson was appointed a

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. He was promoted to Knight Commander and appointed a

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in 1827 and became

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that year, an office he held during the reigns of George IV,

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and the early days of Victoria. In 1843, he anonymously had published ''Religious and Moral Sentences Culled from the Works of Shakespeare, Compared with Sacred Passages Drawn from Holy Writ''. On 11 July 1852, Watson died at his home on New Place,

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, aged 80. He is buried at

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