Prime Minister Lewis Watson.
Lewis Watson was the Prime Minister of Great Britain and the leader of a coalition government of the Conservative and Reform Parties in the late 1830s. Watson came to power after the fall of the Liberal government of Thomas Tillotson in the wake of a major banking crisis in the fall of 1835. By 1839 Watson's coalition government had either been replaced, or been transformed into, the Tory Party under the leadership of Sir Duncan Amory.
Sobel's sources for the rise of the Watson government are Arthur Watkins' The Baring Crisis of 1835 (London, 1910); and George Andrews' Business Cycles in Nineteenth Century Britain (London, 1959).