Mark Sydney Watmore

Mark Sydney Watmore (8 October 1857 - 25 September 1920) was an accountant and local politician.

Born in Portsea, Hampshire, his father was an engineer. For most of his childhood Watmore lived in Malta as his father was employed at the Royal navy dockyard. In 1869 the family returned to England as his father had become foreman of the engine smiths at the locomotive works of the Great Western Railway in Swindon.

Watmore became an accountant and moved to the suburban area of Chiswick in Middlesex. By the 1900s he had moved further out to Teddington. He became involved in local politics and was a vice chairman of the Teddington and Hampton Wick Conservative Association, and a supporter of the Hon. Charles Mills in his election as Member of Parliament for Uxbridge,

He was elected to Teddington Urban District Council, and served as Chairman for 1909-10. He was also a Justice of the Peace, sitting on the Spelthorne Bench of Magistrates. In 1907 he was elected to Middlesex County Council to represent Teddington, holding the seat until 1919. In 1913 he was appointed to the Metropolitan Water Board as representative for the eight "Thames Valley" Urban District Councils of Middlesex (Brentford, Hampton, Hampton Wick, Hanwell, Heston & Isleworth, Sunbury, Teddington and Twickenham).

He was also poor law guardian for Teddington on the Kingston Board of Guardians. He was vice chairman of the board for 1917-18 and was appointed cahiramn in 1918, a post he still held at his death.

He died of pneumonia while holidaying in Cumberland.