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1968

Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton

Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton (1899–1968), (born George Miles Watson), of Compton Verney, Warwickshire and Plumpton Place, East Sussex, was an English peer and racehorse breeder.

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Origins

George Miles Watson was born on 21 June 1899. He was the eldest son of Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton (1873–1922), the Leeds soap magnate, by his wife (Frances) Claire Nickols, daughter of Harold Nickols of Sandford House, Kirkstall, Leeds. Watson had three younger brothers, Robert Fraser, Alastair Joseph, and Richard Mark Watson, all born by 1906. He was educated at Harrow.

Succeeds father

He succeeded as 2nd Baron Manton on the death of his father in 1922. He sold the Compton Verney estate to Samuel Lamb. In 1927, he sold the Manton racehorse training establishment near Marlborough, Wiltshire, which had been purchased by his father.

Career

In the 1920s Manton had been a jockey under National Hunt Rules. having sold his father's briefly-owned seat of Compton Verney, in 1938 he purchased Plumpton Place near Lewes in Sussex, where he established a racehorse stud. Hard Sauce, produced there, sired the winner of the 1958 Derby, Hard Ridden. For the British Bloodstock Agency, he travelled to India and South America. With his brother Robert he was a director of Newmarket Bloodstock Ltd.

Marriage and progeny

He married twice:

  • Firstly on 18 April 1923, to Alathea Alys Mary Pauline Langdale, 2nd daughter and co-heiress of Colonel Philip Joseph Langdale, OBE, JP, DL, of Houghton Hall, Sancton, Yorkshire. Alathea filed for divorce in 1934, which was granted in 1936.
  • Secondly on 1 June 1938, he married Leila Joan Reynolds daughter of Major Philip Guy Reynolds, DSO and formerly the wife of John Dane Player (1864-1950), a director of John Player & Sons tobacco manufacturers founded by his father and of Imperial Tobacco, who had cited Manton in his own divorce proceedings, starting 1937. She became after Manton's death Lady Brownlow, having married, as his 3rd wife, Peregrine Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow of Belton House, Grantham, Lincolnshire.

    • Death

    Manton died in June 1968 at his home Plumpton Place. On his death, the title passed to his son by his first wife Alethea Langdale, Rupert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton.

    References

    Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton Wikipedia
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