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Mr Watson, particularly, has for many years evinced a keen interest in the smaller clubs, and, in fact, worked up from them to the premier organisation. At the present time he is a member of the Durham
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had to repay £100 lent him by the club to start up a business, Watson was financial secretary, and was one of eight
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competition which was only organised a fortnight ago. As far as Mr Watson is concerned it means the removal from active work among the junior amateur clubs of the town a very valuable man.
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returns, in which Watson describes himself as "Secretary-Manager
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357:. Manchester. 7 July 1908. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
180:"Alexander Watson in the England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530–1980"
308:. 8 October 1904. p. 7 – via British Newspaper Archive.
420:. Birmingham. 22 July 1911. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
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207:. RG 9/3962 Folio: 98 Page: 12 – via Ancestry.co.uk.
399:. 20 June 1911. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
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270:. 8 July 1908. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
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506:. RG14/18211 – via Ancestry.co.uk.
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34:Alexander Watson was born in 1864 in
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