Robert Scoular Watson
Robert Scoular Watson (1890-1940)
1940 Obituary [1]
ROBERT SCOULAR WATSON spent practically all his life in work connected with the sugar industry. After receiving his education at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, he served his apprenticeship with Messrs. A. and W. Smith and Company, Ltd., Glasgow, in the manufacture of crushing, evaporating, and crystallizing plants. Following a period at the Derby Technical College, he took up similar work, firstly as estimator with Messrs. G. Fletcher and Company Derby, and then as leading draughtsman with Messrs. Fawcett, Preston and Company, Liverpool.
During the last war he saw active service as an artificer in the Navy, returning afterwards to Messrs. Fletcher and Company to take charge of the department concerned with the design of sugar factories. He went out to Brazil in 1920 as chief engineer of two sugar factories, but returned to Messrs. Fletcher in 1929. Mr. Watson, who was born in 1890, died on 27th February 1940.
He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1922.