Lewis Watson (athlete)
Lewis Watson( June 25, 1895 – May 19, 1961) was an American athlete.
He competed in the men's individual cross country event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Lewis Watson, 2nd Earl of Rockingham
Lewis Watson, 2nd Earl of Rockingham (c. 1714 – 4 November 1745) was a British peer, styled Viscount Sondes from 1722 to 1724.
He was born the eldest son of Edward Watson, Viscount Sondes and Lady Catherine Tufton, the daughter of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet and Lady Catherine Cavendish.
His father having predeceased his own father, Lewis inherited the earldom from his grandfather, Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham, in 1724.
He was Lord Lieutenant of Kent from 1737 to his death in 1745.
He was married to his first cousin Catherine, daughter of Sir Robert Furnese.
After he died in 1745, she remarried to Francis, Earl of Guildford.
Lewis Watson died childless and was succeeded by his brother, Thomas.
Edward Watson, Viscount Sondes
Edward Watson, Viscount Sondes (3 July 1686 – 20 March 1722) of Lees Court, Sheldwich, Kent, and Park Place, London, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1722.
Watson was the eldest son of Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham and his wife Catherine Sondes, daughter of George Sondes, 1st Earl of Feversham.
He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford on 1 June 1703, aged 16 and travelled abroad to Germany in 1707.
Watson arrived back from Germany in 1708, in time to be elected as a Whig Member of Parliament for Canterbury at the 1708 British general election.
He proposed a motion on 25 January 1709 for an address to the Queen that she should consider remarrying.
He also supported the naturalization of the Palatines.
He was appointed to a committee to draft a bill to limit the time allowed for public mourning, since this was felt to be having an adverse effect on Canterbury’s silk trade.
He also voted for the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell and possibly in consequence he lost his seat at the 1710 British general election.
He was returned unopposed as MP for New Romney at a by-election on 20 April 1713.
Following his father's elevation as Earl of Rockingham in 1714, he was styled Viscount Sondes.
In 1718, he went over to the Opposition and in 1719 he was appointed a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales.
Watson died in 1722, predeceasing his father by 2 years.
He married Catherine Tufton, eldest daughter of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet in 1709, and had three sons and a daughter:
In 1729 his widow and her four sisters became co-heiresses to the Barony of Clifford.
The abeyance was terminated in 1734 for the third sister Margaret, wife of Lord Lovel, but following her death without surviving issue in 1775 the barony was restored in favour of Viscount Sondes' grandson Edward Southwell, 20th Baron Clifford.
Lewis Watson, 2nd Baron Sondes
Lewis Thomas Watson, 2nd Baron Sondes( 18 April 1754 – 21 June 1806), was a British Whig politician and peer.
William Lindsay, 18th Earl of Crawford
William Lindsay, 18th Earl of Crawford and 2nd Earl of Lindsay( April 1644 – 6 March 1698) was a Scottish noble and politician.
Lindsay was the eldest son of John Lindsay, 10th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, 17th Earl of Crawford, and 1st Earl of Lindsay, by his wife, Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of the Earl of Haddington.
William succeeded to the earldoms in 1678.
He was a zealous Presbyterian, president of the Convention parliament in 1689, a commissioner of the treasury in 1690, and one of the commissioners for settling the government of the Church of Scotland.
He married firstly Lady Mary Johnstone, daughter of 1st Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, in 1670.
They had one son:
He married secondly Lady Henrietta Fleming, daughter of Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline and widow of 5th Earl of Wigtown, and had further issue.
Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (d. 1677)
Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield( 1658 – 24 October 1677) was the daughter of Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, and the third wife of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield.
She was born in Wing, Buckinghamshire.
She had two sons by the Earl of Chesterfield: Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, and Charles Stanhope.
Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham
Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham( 29 December 1655 – 19 March 1724) was an English peer and politician.
Rockingham was the eldest son of Edward Watson, 2nd Baron Rockingham and his wife, the former Lady Anne Wentworth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford.
In 1677, he married Lady Catherine Sondes, a daughter of George Sondes, 1st Earl of Feversham.
They had five surviving children:
In 1681 – 1685, Watson was Whig Member of Parliament for Canterbury and for Higham Ferrers briefly in 1689, before having to leave the Commons on inheriting his father's barony that year.
Lord Rockingham was Master of the Buckhounds in 1703 – 1705, Custos Rotulorum and Lord Lieutenant of Kent in 1705 – 1724, Vice- Admiral of Kent in 1705 and Deputy Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1705 – 1708.
In 1714, he was created Earl of Rockingham and on his death in 1724, his titles passed to his grandson, Lewis.
William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh
William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh, 2nd Earl of Desmond( 29 December 1640 – 23 August 1685) was an aristocrat in the Peerage of England.
He was the son of George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond, and his wife, the former Bridget Stanhope, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope.
Feilding inherited the title of Earl of Denbigh from his paternal uncle Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, who died without heirs in 1675.
He married, firstly, Mary King( died 1669), daughter of Sir Robert King and Frances Folliott.
Secondly, he married Lady Mary Carey, daughter of Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth.
He died on 23 August 1685 at age 44.
By his first wife, Mary King, Feilding had the following children:
There were no children from the earl's second marriage.
Lewis Watson, 1st Baron Sondes
Lewis Watson, 1st Baron Sondes( 28 November 1728 – 30 March 1795), called Hon. Lewis Monson before 1746 and Hon. Lewis Watson from 1746 to 1760, was a British Whig politician and peer.
Sondes was the second son of John Monson, 1st Baron Monson, and Lady Margaret Watson, youngest daughter of Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham.
He was educated at Westminster School between 1737 and 1745.
He assumed the surname of Watson in 1746 after inheriting the estates of his cousin, Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham.
Watson afterwards went on the Grand Tour with his second cousin the Earl of Malton( later Marquess of Rockingham) and his third cousin Thomas Pelham.
While abroad in Europe in 1750, his third cousin once removed, the Duke of Newcastle, arranged for Watson to be returned in April as Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge in place of the Earl of Dalkeith, who had died.
That autumn, the three kinsmen visited Hanover, where Newcastle presented them, together with Viscount Downe and three other young Englishmen, to George II of Great Britain, who was holding court in the Electorate.
The king was not pleased and snubbed the party when they were presented.
On 12 October 1752, he married his third cousin Grace Pelham( d. 30 July 1777), the third surviving daughter and co-heiress of Prime Minister Henry Pelham, Newcastle's brother.
They had four sons:
In February 1754, his father- in- law procured for him the lucrative sinecure of auditor of the imprests, in succession to William Benson.
The by-election that followed his appointment was not contested.
In the 1754 general election that spring, Newcastle had him returned for Boroughbridge again; Watson also led the poll in Kent, where he and Robert Fairfax stood as Whigs and defeated Sir Edward Dering, one of the sitting Tory members.
Watson chose to sit for Kent.
However, he aspired to the House of Lords, as he enjoyed the estates of the extinct earldom of Rockingham and could well afford to support a title.
Nor did he wish to stand for the county again.
Newcastle pressed his claims strongly on the King, and was ultimately successful: Watson was created Baron Sondes, of Lees Court in the Peerage of Great Britain on 22 May 1760 and vacated his seat in the Commons.
In 1785, the office of auditor of the imprests was abolished, and he received an annuity of £ 7,000 a year for life in compensation.
He died on 30 March 1795 and was succeeded in his title by his eldest son, Lewis Watson.
Sondes was buried at Rockingham, Northamptonshire.
Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury
Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury( later styled Aylesbury) and 3rd Earl of Elgin( 1656 – 16 December 1741) was an English politician and memoirist.
He was the son of Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin, and Lady Diana Grey.
His maternal grandparents were Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, and Lady Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter.
His" Memoirs", which were not published until long after his death, are a valuable source for English history in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.

Question: Where did Lewis Watson, 2Nd Earl Of Rockingham's father graduate from?
Answer: Merton College