John Cliffe Watts
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Cliffe Watts was a British military officer and architect who designed some of the first permanent public buildings in the young British colony of New South Wales, and who also later became Postmaster General in South Australia. He was born in the village of Sallins, County Kildare Ireland to Charles Watts and his wife Margaret. He had seven brothers who, like him, all joined the army as commissioned officers; five of them reached the rank of captain. His education was completed by 1802, and thereafter...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Cliffe Watts was a British military officer and architect who designed some of the first permanent public buildings in the young British colony of New South Wales, and who also later became Postmaster General in South Australia. He was born in the village of Sallins, County Kildare Ireland to Charles Watts and his wife Margaret. He had seven brothers who, like him, all joined the army as commissioned officers; five of them reached the rank of captain. His education was completed by 1802, and thereafter he worked for a short time at a bank in Dublin, and then in a firm of architects for approximately 18 months. On 24 July 1804 he was commissioned into the army as an ensign in the 64th Regiment of Foot, which was at that time stationed in the West Indies. In 1805 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and transferred to the 46th Regiment. During January and February 1810 he was involvedin the action which, on 4 February 1810, took the island of Guadeloupe from the French.
