Richard WatsonRichard Watson was a British Methodist philosopher who lived from 1781 to 1833. At the start of the 19th century, he was one of the most important people in Wesleyan Methodism. Watson was born in Lincolnshire on February 22, 1781, in the town of Bartn-upon-Humber. He was the seventh of Thomas and Ann Watson's eighteen children. Richard was raised in the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. His father, a saddler, was a Calvinist, and he was taught by the Countess. As a boy, he went to a Wesleyan chapel to get away from these views. He was baptized there in 1794. Watson went to Lincoln Grammar School in 1791. In 1795, he went to Lincoln to learn how to be a joiner. On January 8, 1833, Watson died in London. He was buried in London, behind City Road Chapel, in a graveyard. In 1810, he went to London. From 1821 to 1827, he was one of two general secretaries for the Wesleyan Missionary Society. From 1827 to 1829, he worked in Manchester, and then he went back to London. From 1832 to 1833, he was given the same job as a resident secretary for the missionary group. Read More Read Less