Hugh Watson

Admiral Sir Hugh Dudley Richards Watson KCB CVO CBE (20 April 1872 – 22 May 1954) was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary.

Naval career
Watson joined the Royal Navy in 1885; he was appointed Commander of the School of Physical Training before becoming Naval Attaché in Berlin in 1910 and then serving in World War I as Captain of the cruiser HMS Essex from 1914, the battleship HMS Bellerophon from 1915 and the battleship HMS Canada from 1918.

After the War he served with the Allied Post War Control Commission and then became Naval Secretary in 1921, Commander of the 4th Battle Squadron and Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1923 and Commander of the 3rd Battle Squadron and Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1924. His last appointment was as Admiral commanding the Reserve Fleet in 1926 before he retired in 1928.