Early Life and Career
Born in London, Ruth Watson was educated in London and at Westonbirt School in Gloucestershire. After taking up a career in graphic design, she became an inspector for the Good Food Guide.
In 1983, Watson and her husband David bought Hintlesham Hall in Hintlesham, Suffolk as a restaurant and cookery school from Robert Carrier, which over six years they turned into a 33-room hotel, with an 18-hole golf course. In 1990 they bought the Fox and Goose Inn at Fressingfield, launching it as one of Britain's first ever gastropubs. In November 1999, Watson and her husband bought the Crown and Castle hotel in Orford near Woodbridge, Suffolk, which they have fully restored and run as a modern country house hotel.
In January 2013 Watson commenced the first stage of a judicial review action, after the restaurant at the Crown and Castle hotel was awarded a 1 out of 5 food hygiene rating. Watson has claimed that an independent expert has since carried out his own assessment disputing the rating, and that a judicial review will allow a court to determine the fairness of the inspection and the rating. In June 2013 the Crown and Castle hotel regained a 5 rating for food hygiene.
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