Richard Charles Challinor Watson (16 February 1923 – 1 March 1998) was an Anglican clergyman who was the seventh Bishop of Burnley from 1970^[1] to 1988.

Born in Watford, Hertfordshire,^[2] he was the son of Francis William Watson, CB MC TD DL and his wife, Alice Madelein Collings-Wells. He was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford^[3] and studied for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge before a curacy in Stratford, London . After that he was successively: a tutor at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford; Chaplain of Wadham College, Oxford ; Vicar of Hornchurch;^[4] and finally, before his ordination to the episcopate, Rural Dean of Havering.

He married Anna Chavasse, elder daughter of the Bishop of Rochester Christopher Chavasse.^[5] He retired to Thame in 1988 and died 10 years later in Bullingdon, Oxfordshire.^[6]