Laird Watt
Full name: Malcolm Laird Watt
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| Bio | He earned a BA from McGill in 1931, a B.Com. in 1934 and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1993. Watt captained McGill to the 1933-34 Canadian intercollegiate tennis team championship in Kingston. He won the Dr. Charles F. Martin trophy as McGill champion in 1933 and captured back-to-back Canadian intercollegiate singles titles in 1932 and 1933. He also won two Canadian intercollegiate doubles championships (1931 and 1933), as well as the 1933 Quebec senior singles title. After graduation, Watt became the top-ranked tennis player in Canada in 1938 and 1939 and was on four Canadian Davis Cup teams, playing in 1934, 1938 and 1946; he served as a non-playing captain in 1947. He won THREE USA national father & son doubles titles with father Robert N. Watt (1933-34, 1937). He was appointed a governor at McGill in 1970, and later he served as president of the McGill Graduates Society. He was the president of the Quebec Lawn Tennis Association (1951-52) and the president of the Canadian Lawn Tennis Association (1962-63), then the president of the International Lawn Tennis Club of Canada (1965-69). Furthermore, he served with British Commonwealth Games Assoc of Canada (hon. treasurer, '53-59 & VP '59-63). |
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