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	==Life 1760–1800==		==Life 1760–1800==
	Watson was born at Whitely Wood Hall, [[Whiteley Woods]],<ref name ="Ford">Ford, Trevor D., 'White Watson's Tablets', ''Geology Today'' 14:1 (1998), 21–25</ref> near [[Sheffield]], on 10 April 1760. His father was Samuel Watson, a millstone manufacturer of [[Baslow]], Derbyshire, his mother Martha White (which is from where his unusual first name derives). Watson's great-grandfather, Samuel Watson, and his grandfather, also [[Samuel Watson (sculptor)\|Samuel Watson]], had been sculptors and stonemasons engaged on the re-building of [[Chatsworth House]] between 1687 and 1706. Continuing the family tradition, in later years White Watson would also work for the Chatsworth Estate.		Watson was born at Whitely Wood Hall, [[Whiteley Woods]],<ref name ="Ford">Ford, Trevor D., 'White Watson's Tablets', ''Geology Today'' 14:1 (1998), 21–25</ref> near [[Sheffield]], on 10 April 1760. His father was Samuel Watson, a millstone manufacturer of [[Baslow]], Derbyshire, and his mother Martha White (which is from where his unusual first name derives). Watson's great-grandfather, Samuel Watson, and his grandfather, also [[Samuel Watson (sculptor)\|Samuel Watson]], had been sculptors and stonemasons engaged in the re-building of [[Chatsworth House]] between 1687 and 1706. Continuing the family tradition, in later years White Watson would also work for the Chatsworth Estate.
	[[File:White Watson Geology of Derbyshire.jpg\|thumb\|right\|A cross section of Derbyshire geology made from sections of rock by White Watson. Now in [[Derby Museum and Art Gallery\|Derby Museum]].]]		[[File:White Watson Geology of Derbyshire.jpg\|thumb\|right\|A cross section of Derbyshire geology made from sections of rock by White Watson. Now in [[Derby Museum and Art Gallery\|Derby Museum]].]]
	[[File:Henry Watson to 1786.jpg\|thumb\|Henry Watson 1714?–1786 – image dated to c. 1800\|left]]		[[File:Henry Watson to 1786.jpg\|thumb\|Henry Watson 1714?–1786 – image dated to c. 1800\|left]]

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	* The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 1889		* ''The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal'', 1889
	* Ford, Trevor D. 'White Watson and his Geological Sections', Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, ~~vol~~ 71 part 4, 1960. Paper received by the Association 9 May 1958		* [[Trevor D. Ford\|Ford, Trevor D.]] 'White Watson and his Geological Sections', ''Proceedings of the Geologist's Association'', Vol. 71 part 4, 1960. Paper received by the Association 9 May 1958
	* Ford, Trevor D. 'White Watson: Pioneer Derbyshire Geologist', Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society, Vol.1 No.7 (October 1962), pp. 27–37.		* Ford, Trevor D. 'White Watson: Pioneer Derbyshire Geologist', ''Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society'', Vol. 1 No.7 (October 1962), pp. 27–37.
	* Ford, Trevor D. 'White Watson (~~1760-1835~~) & His Geological Tablets', in John Michael Tomlinson, 'Derbyshire Black Marble', Peak District Mines Historical Society, Special Publication no. 4, 1996		* Ford, Trevor D. 'White Watson (1760–1835) & His Geological Tablets', in John Michael Tomlinson, ''Derbyshire Black Marble'', Peak District Mines Historical Society, Special Publication no. 4, 1996

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	* History of and Russell Society work on the Chatsworth Collection, including details of the Watson catalogue and his work for Chatsworth http://www.blnz.com/news/2008/04/23/DEVONSHIRE_MINERAL_COLLECTION_Chatsworth_House_8972.html		* History of and Russell Society work on the Chatsworth Collection, including details of the Watson catalogue and his work for Chatsworth http://www.blnz.com/news/2008/04/23/DEVONSHIRE_MINERAL_COLLECTION_Chatsworth_House_8972.html

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	==Life 1760–1800==		==Life 1760–1800==
	Watson was born at Whitely Wood Hall, [[~~Bingham Park and Whiteley Woods\|~~Whiteley Woods]],<ref name ="Ford">Ford, Trevor D., 'White Watson's Tablets', ''Geology Today'' 14:1 (1998), 21–25</ref> near [[Sheffield]], on 10 April 1760. His father was Samuel Watson, a millstone manufacturer of [[Baslow]], Derbyshire, his mother Martha White (which is from where his unusual first name derives). Watson's great-grandfather, Samuel Watson, and his grandfather, also [[Samuel Watson (sculptor)\|Samuel Watson]], had been sculptors and stonemasons engaged on the re-building of [[Chatsworth House]] between 1687 and 1706. Continuing the family tradition, in later years White Watson would also work for the Chatsworth Estate.		Watson was born at Whitely Wood Hall, [[Whiteley Woods]],<ref name ="Ford">Ford, Trevor D., 'White Watson's Tablets', ''Geology Today'' 14:1 (1998), 21–25</ref> near [[Sheffield]], on 10 April 1760. His father was Samuel Watson, a millstone manufacturer of [[Baslow]], Derbyshire, his mother Martha White (which is from where his unusual first name derives). Watson's great-grandfather, Samuel Watson, and his grandfather, also [[Samuel Watson (sculptor)\|Samuel Watson]], had been sculptors and stonemasons engaged on the re-building of [[Chatsworth House]] between 1687 and 1706. Continuing the family tradition, in later years White Watson would also work for the Chatsworth Estate.
	[[File:White Watson Geology of Derbyshire.jpg\|thumb\|right\|A cross section of Derbyshire geology made from sections of rock by White Watson. Now in [[Derby Museum and Art Gallery\|Derby Museum]].]]		[[File:White Watson Geology of Derbyshire.jpg\|thumb\|right\|A cross section of Derbyshire geology made from sections of rock by White Watson. Now in [[Derby Museum and Art Gallery\|Derby Museum]].]]
	[[File:Henry Watson to 1786.jpg\|thumb\|Henry Watson 1714?–1786 – image dated to c. 1800\|left]]		[[File:Henry Watson to 1786.jpg\|thumb\|Henry Watson 1714?–1786 – image dated to c. 1800\|left]]

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	Watson was elected a Fellow of the [[Linnean Society]]<ref name ="Ford" /> in 1795, and remained a member until his death. He was also a member of the [[Derby Philosophical Society]] from 1800, nominated by [[Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire\|Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire]], and a member of the British Mineralogical Society.		Watson was elected a Fellow of the [[Linnean Society]]<ref name ="Ford" /> in 1795, and remained a member until his death. He was also a member of the [[Derby Philosophical Society]] from 1800, nominated by [[Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire\|Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire]], and a member of the British Mineralogical Society.

	In 1798 he remodelled a grotto in the Chatsworth House grounds into a crystal cave studded with fossils, at a cost of £110 19s.<ref name ="Cooper">[http://www.blnz.com/news/2008/04/23/DEVONSHIRE_MINERAL_COLLECTION_Chatsworth_House_8972.html The Devonshire Mineral Collection of Chatsworth House: an 18th Century Survivor and its Preservation], Michael P Cooper, 2005</ref> ''(the current grotto is a later construction from the 1830s and not Watson's work). Following this, he continued to work for the Chatsworth Estate. Originally contracted for five weeks between April and June 1799 to catalogue and arrange the important mineral collection begun by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, then partly housed in Chiswick, he also arranged the mineral collection of [[Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough\|Lady Henrietta of Bessborough]] (Georgiana's sister) in Cavendish Square at the same time.		In 1798 he remodelled a grotto in the Chatsworth House grounds into a crystal cave studded with fossils, at a cost of £110 19s.<ref name ="Cooper">[http://www.blnz.com/news/2008/04/23/DEVONSHIRE_MINERAL_COLLECTION_Chatsworth_House_8972.html The Devonshire Mineral Collection of Chatsworth House: an 18th Century Survivor and its Preservation], Michael P Cooper, 2005</ref> (the current grotto is a later construction from the 1830s and not Watson's work). Following this, he continued to work for the Chatsworth Estate. Originally contracted for five weeks between April and June 1799 to catalogue and arrange the important mineral collection begun by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, then partly housed in Chiswick, he also arranged the mineral collection of [[Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough\|Lady Henrietta of Bessborough]] (Georgiana's sister) in Cavendish Square at the same time.

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	In 1808 Watson married Ann Thorpe, aged 29, from [[Buckminster]], Leicestershire, who was a relative of [[Isaac Newton\|Sir Isaac Newton]]. Earlier the same year he produced a tablet showing a detailed cross-section of the stratigraphy of Derbyshire on a line from [[Buxton]] to [[Bolsover]], which he presented to the Duke of Devonshire on 20 February 1808. From 1810 Watson made a number of tablets of this section, largely on a scale of 1/2 inch to a mile or one inch to a mile, and based on these published an important early work on the geology of Derbyshire, ''The Delineation of the Strata of Derbyshire'', in 1811. Despite being designed during an early and somewhat primitive stage of the science of geology, it is remarkable how accurate these sections were, describing a sequence of 36 stratigraphical levels in Derbyshire rocks with a lengthy fold-out cross-section of almost the entire width of Derbyshire. By then, Watson's tablets, sketches and notes clearly show that Watson was aware of and in agreement with [[Abraham Werner]]'s theories of geology and classification of rocks, and ''The Delineation'' includes some discussion on Werner's theories. Watson's personal papers from 1800 included ''A catalogue of a systematic collection of fossils arranged according to Mr Werner's system''.		In 1808 Watson married Ann Thorpe, aged 29, from [[Buckminster]], Leicestershire, who was a relative of [[Isaac Newton\|Sir Isaac Newton]]. Earlier the same year he produced a tablet showing a detailed cross-section of the stratigraphy of Derbyshire on a line from [[Buxton]] to [[Bolsover]], which he presented to the Duke of Devonshire on 20 February 1808. From 1810 Watson made a number of tablets of this section, largely on a scale of 1/2 inch to a mile or one inch to a mile, and based on these published an important early work on the geology of Derbyshire, ''The Delineation of the Strata of Derbyshire'', in 1811. Despite being designed during an early and somewhat primitive stage of the science of geology, it is remarkable how accurate these sections were, describing a sequence of 36 stratigraphical levels in Derbyshire rocks with a lengthy fold-out cross-section of almost the entire width of Derbyshire. By then, Watson's tablets, sketches and notes clearly show that Watson was aware of and in agreement with [[Abraham Werner]]'s theories of geology and classification of rocks, and ''The Delineation'' includes some discussion on Werner's theories. Watson's personal papers from 1800 included ''A catalogue of a systematic collection of fossils arranged according to Mr Werner's system''.

	A number of other sections along different lines across Derbyshire were published between 1813 and 1831, together with numerous localised geological sections of peaks and cliffs such as [[Mam Tor]]. An 1813 pamphlet 'Section of Strata in the Vicinity of Matlock Bath', argued against [[John Farey, Sr.\|John Farey]] (1766–1826), a contemporary surveyor and geologist who had produced a geological map, ''A General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire'', early in 1811 (prior to Watson's ''Delineation'). Working independently and with little other information other than what they themselves had observed, Watson and Farey disagreed considerably<ref name="Ford" /> over the details of the geological structure of Derbyshire, and Watson correctly realised that the Derbyshire mountain landscapes were caused by underground volcanic action as opposed to Farey's assertion that they were formed by "satellite attraction from above". However, any friction over personal theories or accusations by Farey of appropriation of ideas did not preclude their discussing their findings during a number of meetings in Bakewell around 1811.		A number of other sections along different lines across Derbyshire were published between 1813 and 1831, together with numerous localised geological sections of peaks and cliffs such as [[Mam Tor]]. An 1813 pamphlet 'Section of Strata in the Vicinity of Matlock Bath', argued against [[John Farey, Sr.\|John Farey]] (1766–1826), a contemporary surveyor and geologist who had produced a geological map, ''A General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire'', early in 1811 (prior to Watson's ''Delineation''). Working independently and with little other information other than what they themselves had observed, Watson and Farey disagreed considerably<ref name="Ford" /> over the details of the geological structure of Derbyshire, and Watson correctly realised that the Derbyshire mountain landscapes were caused by underground volcanic action as opposed to Farey's assertion that they were formed by "satellite attraction from above". However, any friction over personal theories or accusations by Farey of appropriation of ideas did not preclude their discussing their findings during a number of meetings in Bakewell around 1811.

	In 1825, the year of Ann's death, Watson's business card stated he "executes monuments, tombs etc., gives lessons in geology and mineralogy and furnishes collections, affords information to antiquaries and amusement to Botanists". Probably in the same year, Watson produced an unusual circular stratigraphical diagram ''A DELINEATION of the ten deepest STRATA as yet discovered in the MINERAL DISTRICTS of DERBYSHIRE''. In this the geological strata are arranged in near-concentric circles outwards from the oldest rocks towards the centre to youngest rocks at points around the edge marked with the different place names in Derbyshire where the strata had been noted. These points lay at different distances from the centre according to the complexity of the stratification at that point.		In 1825, the year of Ann's death, Watson's business card stated he "executes monuments, tombs etc., gives lessons in geology and mineralogy and furnishes collections, affords information to antiquaries and amusement to Botanists". Probably in the same year, Watson produced an unusual circular stratigraphical diagram ''A DELINEATION of the ten deepest STRATA as yet discovered in the MINERAL DISTRICTS of DERBYSHIRE''. In this the geological strata are arranged in near-concentric circles outwards from the oldest rocks towards the centre to youngest rocks at points around the edge marked with the different place names in Derbyshire where the strata had been noted. These points lay at different distances from the centre according to the complexity of the stratification at that point.
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	* Ford, Trevor D. 'White Watson (1760-1835) & His Geological Tablets', in John Michael Tomlinson, 'Derbyshire Black Marble', Peak District Mines Historical Society, Special Publication no. 4, 1996		* Ford, Trevor D. 'White Watson (1760-1835) & His Geological Tablets', in John Michael Tomlinson, 'Derbyshire Black Marble', Peak District Mines Historical Society, Special Publication no. 4, 1996
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