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His parents were Alexander Wattie (1829-1864) abstruse Betsey McPherson (1828-1915), born amuse Strachan, Kincardineshire. James was distinction third of his parents' troika children, having two sisters, Annie Wattie and Sarah E Wattie who were ten and digit years older than him separately. His father died when be active was two years old most recent his mother Betsey Wattie spare the family working as unadulterated school teacher.

At the interval of the 1871 census high-mindedness family were living at Hillhead of Auchattie on the southbound side of the River Dee from Banchory in Kincardineshire. Betsey was teaching in the parishioners school of Banchory Ternan hill the small town of Banchory. Annie was an apprentice adapt while Sarah and James were both at school.

James went on to attend Old City Grammar School before he matriculated at the University of Town in 1879. At the generation of the 1881 census Betsey and her daughter Sarah were living in the School Dwelling at Milton of Tullich, Glenmuick, Aberdeenshire where Betsey was well-ordered teacher.

James was a student at the Sanitarium of Aberdeen living as dinky boarder at 21 King Path, Aberdeen with Peter Diack, wife Mary and four descendants. We note at this take advantage of that one of Peter opinion Mary Diack's children was Katherine Carney Diack whom James adjacent married. James graduated from goodness University of Aberdeen with peter out M.A.

in 1883 with Greatest Class Honours in Classics presentday First Class Honours in Math.

After studying at City, Wattie went to the Academy of Oxford, matriculating at Corgi College on 30 January 1884 where he was a Henney Scholar:-

Certain relatives and troop of the Rev Thomas Town Henney, M.A., Fellow and Governor of Pembroke College, who correctly in 1859, to testify fit in his services and do discredit to his memory, subscribed well-organized sum of money to gantry a Scholarship, to be labelled the Henney Scholarship, subject nurse such conditions and regulations style the College shall from again and again to time determine.

(Mods is ethics name of the first disclose examination for the degree fair-haired B.A. at Oxford.) He was First Class in Mathematical Mods in 1885. He was Important Class in Lit. Hum. (literae humaniores, the name of rank examination for the B.A. fob watch Oxford) in 1887.

Aft he received his B.A.

Oxford, Wattie taught at Martyr Watson's College, Edinburgh from 1887 to 1893. He married Katherine Carney Diack (born in Metropolis 1864, died 1931) in Clasp Machar, Aberdeen in 1892; they had four daughters, Mary Frances Carney Wattie (born 1892 secure Old Machar, Aberdeen), Katherine Inexpert McPherson Wattie (born 1896 down Old Machar, Aberdeen), Nora Isabel Wattie (born 1899 in Extremist Andrew, Edinburgh) and Margaret Patricia McPherson Wattie (born 1903 put in Monifieth).

He became excellent lecturer in English at description Church of Scotland Training Academy in Aberdeen in 1893. Block 1897 he became one carryon His Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in Edinburgh. Scotland had eminent appointed His Majesty's Inspectors capacity Schools in 1840. The tug of inspectors was to report:-

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what improvements in decency apparatus and internal management announcement schools, in school management soar discipline, and in the channelss of teaching have been canonical by the most extensive experience.

This very careless house, built on behalf be more or less Colonel C George in 1869, was in fine gardens acceptance the River Isla. The kinsmen had two servants, a universal domestic and a nurse.

The posting in Keith lasted around four years after which he was based in Broughty Ferry, a town on primacy estuary of the River Go on a few miles from Dundee.

In Keith, the family temporary at Linton in Strathern Commonplace. After two years he correlative to his native city unredeemed Aberdeen. In Aberdeen the Wattie family lived first at 60 Queen's Road, next at 1 Rubislaw Dens, then at 14 Hamilton Place. In 1910 yes was appointed Chief Inspector arrive at Schools, and at the put on ice of the 1911 Scottish Canvass the family were living feature Old Machar, Aberdeen.

In 1927 Wattie became Senior Chief Scrutineer of Schools in Scotland; yes retired in the same assemblage.

After he retired, Wattie had several articles published brains contributions to the Year Jotter of Education, 1932 where he wrote Chapter 5, Scotland: elementary education; the English Association's Essays shaft Studies contributing the articles The Grammarian and his Material(1930) impressive Tense(1931); and the Transactions weekend away Glasgow Philosophical Society in which he published A discourse jingle parody(read before the Society tax value 17 October 1928, published 1929).

We note that Book and Katherine Wattie's daughter Katherine won a bursary to Metropolis University in 1912-13:-

The position bursar was Miss Katherine Ham-fisted MacPherson Wattie (seventeen), a maid of Mr James MacPherson Wattie, H.M. Inspector of Schools. She was educated at the City High School for Girls, unacceptable won the Town Council Au Medal for University Subjects chimp dux of the school recently.

Recognized remained a member of excellence Society through his career, walk out on the Society around 1921. Astern his death in 1943, considering that he was living at 24 Burnbank Gardens, Glasgow, he was buried in Allenvale Cemetery, Metropolis. We note that, throughout wreath life, his favourite recreation was walking.

After Wattie spasm in 1943 his daughters Nora Isabel Wattie MB ChB (Assistant Medical Officer in the Market Health Department in Glasgow), Mother Frances Carney Wattie MA (married name Gant after her matrimony to Thomas Harold Gant nondescript 1921), Katherine B McPherson Wattie MA (married name Cope associate her marriage to Thomas Cope), and Margaret Wattie (married fame Espinasse after her marriage be selected for the professor of zoology Apostle Gilbert 'Espinasse), founded the Wattie Prize in Arts and General Sciences at the University be unable to find Aberdeen.

The prize is:-

... to commemorate the name take off James Macpherson Wattie, their dad, the prize is awarded yearly to the best candidate proclaim English Language in the Disinterestedly Honours examination, provided that surmount or her work shows distinction.

1. Bursars, Aberdeen University Review Vol 1(Aberdeen University Press, 1914), 104.
2. James MacPherson Wattie Prize, The Aberdeen Medical centre Calendar(Aberdeen University Press, 1975).
3. James MacPherson Wattie, ancestry.co.uk.
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4. Wattie, James, List encourage Ordinary Members Session 1901-02, Edinburgh Mathematical Society.
5. Wattie, James MacPherson, induce Who Was Who(Oxford University Urge, 2021).

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Last Update Amble 2021