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Sir Brook Watson, 1st Baronet (7 February 1735 – 2 October 1807) was an English merchant and politician who served as the Lord Mayor of London from 1796 to 1797.
Shark attacks, espionage, and the Bank of England? Learn about the varied life of merchant, politician, and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Brook Watson.
This painting by John Singleton Copley now carries the deceptively simple title Watson and the Shark, which tells a singular story about a real event: young Brook Watson’s harrowing rescue from the jaws of a ravenous shark in Havana Harbor in 1749.
Jul 24, 2018 · "Watson and the Shark" painting by John Singleton Copley depicts the real life shark attack of Sir Brook Watson. In celebration of Shark Week and sharks everywhere, That Was History takes...
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Sir Brook Watson, 1st Baronet (7 February 1735 – 2 October 1807) was an English merchant and politician who served as the Lord Mayor of London from 1796 to 1797.
He was never again in Parliament, but after returning home and retiring on half-pay in 1796 he became an active chairman of Lloyd’s and was the first member of Lloyd’s to be lord mayor 1796-7. As such he was censured, 11 May 1797, after making repeated attempts to thwart common hall resolutions hostile to government.
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and politician (fig. 1). Granted a baronetcy in 1806, Sir Brook Watson died the following year at the age of seventy-one.2 From affliction and hardship to wealth and fame, Watson's was the sort of eighteenth-century life that another lover of swim-ming, Benjamin Franklin, would have celebrated.3 But Watson is
