William Watts (colonial administrator)

William Watts
Deputy Governor of Anguilla
In office
1660–1666
Governor of Saint Kitts
Personal details
OccupationColonial governor; sea captain
Known forColonial administration in the Caribbean; military expedition against Saint Martin
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William Watts was a British colonial governor, a sea captain under the Commonwealth sent to the Caribbean shortly after the English Restoration. He was Deputy Governor of Anguilla from 1660 to 1666, and also governed St Kitts.

Watts was an appointee of Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham. On St Kitts he ran a profitable sugar cane estate using slave labour.

As an act of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, Watts sent an expedition against Saint Martin. It brought French retaliation on St Kitts.

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