Kenneth Albert Watson was born in Singapore in July 1912. Before the Second World War, he worked in banking in Hong Kong and was a member of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force as a cadet and later lieutenant in the build up to war. He married Florence Isabel ‘Isa’ Lammert (1917-2007) in May 1941 at St John’s Cathedral, Hong Kong. Following the Japanese invasion in December 1941, Watson was interred at the Argyle Street Camp in Kowloon; the Lammert family were interred at Stanley Camp. After the war, Watson opened a photography studio in Wyndham Street and later joined his father-in-law’s auctioneering firm, Lammert Bros. He was increasingly active in the civic life of the colony, serving on the Urban Council, the Traffic Advisory Committee, and as an unofficial Justice of the Peace and an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council [i.e. an individual who is a member of the Legislative Council or Executive Council of Hong Kong but is not a member of the Hong Kong Government]. The Watsons had three daughters: Elizabeth, Carolyn and Linda. He was awarded an OBE for public services in Hong Kong in the 1964 New Year Honours. Watson died aged 86 in Shaftesbury, Dorset, in May 1999.