John Watts (Stoke politician)
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John Watts (Stoke politician)
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John Watts was a British political activist. Watts was educated at Audley Grammar School. He worked for a time as a coal miner, but he retrained as a mining engineer. In 1895, Watts was working at the Diglake Colliery, when it flooded. He ran to warn other miners of the danger, and played a prominent role in rescue efforts, repeatedly descending into freezing water, and was as a result awarded the silver medal of the Royal Humane Society. He later moved to work at the Mansfield Colliery in Longt
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