Watts was born March 1804,[3] and baptised on 15 April 1804 at St Thomas Ardwick. He started his life as a weaver in Didsbury. He became partners with his brothers Samuel and John and became an important figure among British industrialists, socialising with politicians and churchmen at his home, Abney Hall, in Cheadle. He was elected a councillor for St James's Ward, became mayor in 1855, was re-elected in 1856, and at the same time an alderman.[4] After Prince Albert chose to stay with him when he visited Manchester to open the Art Treasures Exhibition in 1857, the queen awarded him a knighthood.
^Country Life. Country Life, Limited. 18 April 1963. p. 847. Retrieved 15 July 2018. James, later Sir James of Abney Hall, first saw the light of day on March 6, 1804, at Ardwick....
^Clare Hartwell (11 March 2001), Manchester (Pevsner Architectural Guides), Yale University Press, p. 192, ISBN9780300096668, OL 10318833M, 0300096666
^Burke, Bernard (1898). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison & sons. p. 1556. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
^Chronology of Salford Hundred citing The Annals of Manchester A chronological record from the earliest times to the end of 1885. Edited by William E. A. Axon. 1886. Manchester Central Library, Salford Local History Library
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