Watts won on Ladas (1894), and on Kirkconnel (1895); in the One Thousand on Miss Jummy (1886), Semolina (1889), Thais (1896), and Chelandry (1897); in the Oaks on Bonny Jean (1883), Miss Jummy (1886), Memoir (1890), and Mrs. Butterwick (1893); in the St. Leger on Ossian (1883), the Lambkin (1884), Memoir (1890), La Flêche (1892), and Persimmon (1896); and in the Ascot Cup on Morion, La Flêche, and Persimmon. His last winning mount in a ‘classic’ race was Lord Rosebery's Chelandry, who won the One Thousand Guineas in 1897. Watts gave up his jockey's licence in 1899, when his career in the saddle had extended over twenty-four years, and his winners numbered in all 1412. His most successful years were 1887, when he had 110 winning mounts, 1888 with 105 winners, 1891 with 114, and 1892 with 106 winners.
Watts, who acquired much of his skill from Tom Cannon, modelled his style on the ‘old school’ of which Fordham and Tom Cannon were masters. Nature had endowed Watts with the best of ‘hands.’ Perhaps he was seen to chief advantage on an inexperienced two-year-old, employing gentle persuasion with admirable effect, although he was equal to strenuous measures at need.
In 1900 Watts began to train racehorses at Newmarket. That season he only saddled one winner of a 100l. plate; but in 1901 he turned out seven winners of fifteen races worth 5557l., and in 1902 four winners of five races valued at 1327l., between March and July. On 19 July of that year he had a seizure at Sandown Park, and on the 29th of the same month died in the hospital on the course. He was buried in Newmarket cemetery. He was twice married: (1) in 1885 to Annie, daughter of Mrs. Lancaster of the Black Bear Hotel, Newmarket; and (2) in 1901 to Lutetia Annie, daughter of Francis Hammond of Portland House, Newmarket. His widow in 1911 married Kempton, son of Tom Cannon, formerly a successful jockey. Two of Watts's sons adopted their father's profession, and the eldest afterwards became a trainer at Newmarket.
A painting by Miss M. D. Hardy of Watts winning the Derby on Persimmon in 1896, and a photogravure of Watts on the same horse, with portraits of the King and Richard Marsh, are reproduced in A. E. T. Watson's ‘King Edward VII as a Sportsman,’ pp. 160–4. A caricature portrait by ‘Lib’ appeared in ‘Vanity Fair’ in 1887.
[Sportsman, 30 July 1902; Ruff's Guide to the Turf; Notes supplied by Mr. J. E. Watts; King Edward VII as a Sportsman, ed. A. E. T. Watson, 1911.]
WAUGH, BENJAMIN (1839–1908), philanthropist, born at Settle, Yorkshire, on 20 Feb. 1839, was the eldest son of James Waugh, by his wife Mary, daughter of John Harrison of Skipton. After education at a private school he went to business at fourteen. But in 1862 he entered Airedale College, Bradford, to be trained for the congregational ministry. He was congregational minister at Newbury from 1865 to 1866, at Greenwich from 1866 till 1885, and at New Southgate from 1885 till 1887, when he retired, to devote himself exclusively to philanthropic labours.
At Greenwich Waugh began to work in behalf of neglected and ill-treated children. In conjunction with John Macgregor (‘Rob Roy’) he founded a day institution for the care of vagrant boys, which they called the Wastepaper and Blacking Brigade; they arranged with two smack owners to employ the boys in deep-sea fisheries. The local magistrates acknowledged the usefulness of their plan and handed over to them first offenders instead of sending them to prison. Public appreciation of Waugh's work was shown by his election in 1870 for Greenwich to the London school board; he was re-elected in 1873, retiring on account of bad health in 1876, when he received a letter of regret from the education department and an illuminated address and a purse of 500 guineas from his fellow-members. He did good work on the board as first chairman of the books committee and as a champion of the cause of neglected children.
From 1874 to 1896 Waugh was editor of the ‘Sunday Magazine,’ having succeeded Dr. Thomas Guthrie [q. v.]. In 1873 he published a plea for the abolition of juvenile imprisonment, ‘The Gaol-Cradle: who rocks it?’
After recovering his health in 1880 Waugh resumed his beneficent work, and in 1884 he assisted Miss Sarah Smith (‘Hesba Stretton’) [q. v. Suppl. II] in the establishment of the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. In 1885 he collaborated with Cardinal Manning in an article in the ‘Contemporary Review’ entitled ‘The Child of the English Savage,’ describing the evils to be combated by his society. The society gradually gained support, and in 1888 was established by
