Memorial of James Watson, Esq., Brookhill, with Notices of his Contemporaries. Belfast : James Alex. Henderson, News-Letter Office, 1851.Pp 100. Publisher’s brown cloth boards, title in gilt to upper cover, all edges in gilt. Shelf-wear to covers. Frontispiece plate in facsimile, with repair to top portion of title page. A very good copy.

James Watson (1767-1850), known as ‘The Young Commodore’, was a popular magistrate at Hillsborough, Lisburn, and Belfast, and a resolute Loyalist, adopting a position as Captain of the Brookhill Yeomanry.