Dr. James Watt

Dr. James Watt (d. 1821) left his position within the Church of Scotland in 1797; he was baptized in Edinburgh and soon began preaching as a Baptist. He traveled around Scotland on a preaching tour before settling in Glasgow, where he completed his M.D. in 1802, performing pastoral duties thereafter for many years for two Scotch Baptist congregations in Glasgow until his death in 1821.  For more on Fuller and his Glasgow friends, see the series of letters between Fuller and James Deakin of Glasgow in the Baptist Quarterly 7 (1934-35), 327-33; 361-72.