Kenneth Albert Watson

Watson became a businessman and the owner of Lammert Brothers Auctioneers Ltd. (which operated out of the Pedder Building in Central post-World War Two).^[2] From 1964 to 1970, Watson was an unofficial member of the Legislative Council.

He provoked the public on the issue of raising telephone fees in 1964 by saying that telephone service in Hong Kong was one of the cheapest in the world. Watson was a director of the Hong Kong Telephone Company with two Legislative Council members Kan Yuet-keung and Kwan Cho-yiu who also served at the Hong Kong Telephone.^[3]

From July to September 1968, he was provisionally appointed to the Executive Council during the absence of J. A. Saunders.^[4]

In 1964, he was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his public services in Hong Kong.^[5] He died in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England in May 1999 at the age of 86.^[6]