| Snipe Watson | |
| Full Name: | Robert Watson |
| Birth Place: | Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland |
| Death Date: | 7 May 1961 |
| Death Place: | Rathangan, County Kildare, Republic of Ireland |
| Occupation: | Clergy |
| University: | Trinity College Dublin |
| Position: | Wing |
| Repyears1: | 1912 |
| Repcaps1: | 1 |
| Reppoints1: | 0 |
Robert "Snipe" Watson was an Irish international rugby union player.
A wing three-quarter, Watson played rugby for Wanderers and was capped once for Ireland, appearing against the touring Springboks at Lansdowne Road in 1912. He later served as president of Leinster Rugby.[1]
Watson was a chaplain to the forces in the later stages of World War I and received the Croix de Guerre. He became Canon of Kildare in 1944 and was Rector of Clonsast & Rathangan.[2]