James Watt

James Watt WS FRSE FRSGS LLD (21 March 1863–3 December 1945) was a 19th/20th-century Scottish lawyer, actuary and geographer. Life Watt was born in Edinburgh on 21 March 1863. He was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh. He did not attend university but was apprenticed as a lawyer at the offices of Ebenezer Mill at 51 Princes Street (later known as Mill & Bonar). In 1891 he became personal clerk to John Blair of Davidson & Syme WS based at 22 Castle Street in Edinburgh's New Town. He trained as a Writer to the Signet qualifying in 1896 and becoming senior partner of Davidson & Syme in 1912. A successful firm by this stage it was based at 28 Charlotte Square, and Watt was living at 24 Rothesay Terrace in the West End, a duplex flat overlooking Dean Village.