John Boles Watson (c. 1748 – 1813 Cheltenham)The Monthly Magazine; or, British Register., No. 237, Vol. XXXV, Part I for 1813, p. 375. built the first permanent theatre in Cheltenham at York Passage, 1782.Theatre Playbills Collection, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2011. Archive here. Boles Watson also built the Theatre Royal, Gloucester, in 1791"Amazing Theatre Royal is now a pound store" by Kevin George in The Citizen, 10 December 2011, p. 16.Palace (Gloucester). theatrestrust.org.uk, 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2011. and was closely associated with the Cirencester theatre.
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External links 'The Watsons of Kilconnor, County Carlow, 1650 - Present', 2019 by Peter Coutts and Alan Watson
Further reading Denning, Anthony. (1993) Theatre in the Cotswolds: The Boles Watson Family and the Cirencester Theatre. London: Society for Theatre Research.