A native of
Durham, Watson was educated at
St John's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1566. For some time he resided with
Thomas Gawdy, then
recorder of
Norwich, at his residence Gawdy Hall in
Harleston,
Norfolk. He commenced M.A. in 1569, and his name occurs in the list of the opponents of the new statutes of the university in 1572. Watson was ordained deacon at Norwich in 1574. It is supposed that he died before 12 June 1581, when the
Stationers' Company licensed to Henry Carre "a lamentation for the death of Mr. Christofer Watson, mynister". He has been tentatively identified with the Christopher Watson who was appointed rector of
Bircham Newton, Norfolk, in 1573, and also resigned the rectory of
Beechamwell in the same county before 1583. ==Works==