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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon WATSON, D Lyall Born: fl. 1938 Architect SACA: Reg No: 990 Year registered: 1947 Also recorded (1969) as D LYALL-WATSON. DipArch (Rand), ISAA, TPIA, CPIA. Born in King Williamstown, Cape Province, third child and eldest son of Thomas Smith Watson (1875–1915) and Alice Katherine nee Wagenaar (1880–??) (FS). Lyall-Watson won the Baker Scholarship in 1938. Doug Lyall-Watson, served during World War II with the British Royal Air Force (RAF). He is recorded in 1959 as being principal and partner in the practice STUCKE, HARRISON, RITCHIE and WATSON of address Provident Buildings, 108 Fox Street, Johannesburg. By 1969 he is recorded as retired member of the CPIA, address Plettenberg Bay. He married Mary Grace Morkel (1916–??) at Johannesberg, Transvaal, South Africa on 1937 06 26 and is father of the internationally renowned naturalist Lyall Watson. Publ: The SA reserve bank - Jhb agency - Gordon Leith & Partners, archts ill & plans, SAAR Oct 1938:385-6 (Family Search). References ISAA. 1959. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1958-1959 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1958-1959. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 99, 193, 228 (infra Harrison) ISAA. 1969. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1968-1969 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1968-1969. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 97, 174