Brook Watson
British merchant, soldier, politician and Lord Mayor of London (1735 – 1807) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Brook Watson, 1st Baronet (7 February 1735 – 2 October 1807) was a British merchant, soldier, and later Lord Mayor of London. He is perhaps best known as the subject of John Singleton Copley's painting Watson and the Shark, which depicts a shark attack on Watson as a boy that resulted in the loss of his right leg below the knee.