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Richard Watts (died 24 March 1844) was an early nineteenth-century English printer, located in Crown Court, Temple Bar, London. His work is identified under the signature R. Watts.[1]
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Watts was the printer for the University of Cambridge from 1802 until 1809,[2] (a switch to stenotype was made by the school in 1804).[2] He left Cambridge in 1809 and set up a printing workshop in Broxbourne, subsequently setting up the Oriental Type-Foundry on Temple Bar, London, in 1816.
Watts developed a reputation as "a cutter and founder of Oriental and foreign characters, of which he accumulated a considerable collection".[3] His Oriental Type-Foundry was also the oriental printer for the Church Missionary Society, the Bible Society, the Prayer Book Society, and the Homily Society.
Watts's son, William Mavor Watts (1797/98-1874), took over the printing business in Crown Court, Temple Bar.[4]
Watts died age 70 and is buried in All Saints' Church, Edmonton.
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