The Right Reverend Alfred Augustin Watson D.D.
Bishop of East Carolina
Church	Episcopal Church
Diocese	East Carolina
Elected	December 13, 1883
In office	1884–1905
Successor	Robert Strange
Orders
Ordination	May 25, 1845 by Levi Silliman Ives
Consecration	April 17, 1884 by William Mercer Green
Personal details
Born	(1818-08-21)August 21, 1818 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Died	April 21, 1905(1905-04-21) (aged 86) Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
Buried	Oakdale Cemetery (Wilmington, North Carolina)
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Jesse Watson & Hannah Maria Tallman
Spouse	Harriet Gold Halsey (m.1844, d.1847) Frances Hoffman Livingston (m.1849, d.1888) Mary Catherine Lord

Alfred Augustin Watson (August 21, 1818 – April 21, 1905) was first bishop of the Diocese of East Carolina in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

Following education at New York University, he was ordained to the diaconate by Benjamin T. Onderdonk on November 3, 1844; and to the priesthood by Levi Silliman Ives on May 25, 1845. During the Civil War, he was chaplain to the Second Regiment of North Carolina State troops. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living bishop in the Episcopal Church, and the senior member of General Convention in order of service, having been first elected to the House of Deputies for North Carolina in 1850.^[1]

He was consecrated on April 17, 1884.

Bishop Watson married three times, and was survived by his third wife, Mary C. Watson (née Lord).

• Obituary in The Living Church, April 29, 1905, p. 890.

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