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Surname	Watson	Alternative Surname
First Name	John II	Initial of Surname	W
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1808-29
Year of Death
Biographical Details	Gunis notes that he did a considerable amount of work at the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, building the ‘New Helpless Ward’ in 1808 and the Infirmary four years later. There he was apparently responsible for all the carved stonework and the marble chimneypieces (1, 2). In 1812-14 he completed the west front of King Charles’s Building, and in 1815 received £7,000 for new offices, eastward of Greenwich Palace. In 1825 he built the out pension office at St Mary Axe, and in 1828-29 the Royal Hospital Schools at Greenwich (Gunnis 1968, 414, incorrectly cites PRO, ADM 882-Ad. 887).