Horton, Watts

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Sir Watts Horton of Chadderton near Manchester proposed Society for Constitutional Information 3.11.1780 by Thomas Bentley 2nded Adam Walker

Born 17.11.1753 died 15.11.1811 married 3.6.1778 Henrietta (who died Bath 15.10.1830) dau of James Stanley erroneously styled Lord Strange (son of Edward 11th Earl of Derby and father of Edward 12th earl of Derby) Only child Harriet Susanna Anne born 4.1.1790 see Burke's Extinct Baronetcies 1844.  Eton & Cambridge.  Succeeded as baronet 1774. High Sheriff Lancs 1775. Steward of Manchester horse races 1776. Chair of Lancaster Society 1777. Lived Hertford St 1779 when lost spaniel Racket. Committee of York associators 1779. JP West Riding 1780. Manchester Agriculture Society 1780. Committee of Westminster associators 1780. Original member of Whig Club 1784. Lived Upper Brook St 1789 when lost Newfoundland dog Bruin. Appeared in many fashionable activities in newspapers including Times 29.4.1793 Sacred music and faro (gambling) at Sir Watts Horton's. Star 12.6.1793 among noblemen and gentlemen boycotting innkeepers' combination to raise prices of post-horses. London Chronicle 17.9.1793 archery contest at Chadderton (and next six years). General Evening Post 18.10.1794 chair of committee to raise Lancashire regiment of fencibles. Whitehall Evening Post 21.5.1796 his house in Upper Brook St sold to Mr Turner for 5500 guineas. Lancaster Gazette 23.11.1811 died at his house in Hereford.