Whipper Billy Watson Whipper Billy Watson William John Potts, (June 25, 1915 – February 4, 1990) was a Canadian professional wrestler best known by his ring name "Whipper" Billy Watson, and was a two-time world heavyweight wrestling champion. Watson was born in 1915 in East York, Ontario (now part of Toronto) to an English born father, John Potts and a Canadian born mother, Alice Mary Wilken. Watson began wrestling in Toronto under his real name. He was a member of the Scarborough Athletic Club in the mid-1930s and was wrestling on what were billed as amateur wrestling shows in Toronto. For four years
Janet Watson Janet Watson Janet Vida Watson FRS FGS (1923–1985) was a British geologist. She was the first woman to become president of the Geological Society of London. She was born 1 September 1923 in Hampstead, London. Her parents were David M. S. Watson FRS, a vertebrate palaeontologist and professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the University of London, and Katharine M. Parker, who did research in embryology before marrying. Watson grew up with her sister Katharine Mary in South Hampstead and attended the local school, before going to Reading University to read General Science. She graduated with a first class