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"SIR PHILIP WATTS (1846-), British naval architect, was born in Kent May 30 1846, and was educated at the College of Naval Architecture, becoming a constructor to the Admiralty up to 1885. From 1885 to 1901 he was director of the War Shipping department of Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. at Elswick (subsequently returning as a director of the company in 1912); but in 1901 he was appointed Director of Naval Construction at the Admiralty. This post he held until 1912, when he was succeeded by Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt (b.1868) and became Adviser to the Admiralty on Naval Construction. In this capacity he played an important part when the World War came, and it was his fate, as the designer of the first " Dreadnought," to see the use that was made of the fleet which he had brought into being in previous years. He was a member of the royal commission on the Supply and Storage of Liquid Fuel (1912), and of the Council of the Royal Society. He was created K.C.B. in 1905.