Harold Watkinson
The Viscount Watkinson | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation | |
| In office 20 December 1955 – 14 October 1959 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Sir Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan |
| Preceded by | John Boyd-Carpenter |
| Succeeded by | Ernest Marples |
| Minister of Defence | |
| In office 14 October 1959 – 13 July 1962 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan |
| Preceded by | Duncan Sandys |
| Succeeded by | Peter Thorneycroft |
| Member of Parliament for Woking | |
| In office 23 February 1950 – 26 June 1964 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Succeeded by | Cranley Onslow |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 January 1910 Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England |
| Died | 19 December 1995 (aged 85) Bosham, West Sussex, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | King's College London |
Harold Arthur Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson, CH, PC (25 January 1910 – 19 December 1995, was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation between 1955 and 1959 and a cabinet member as Minister of Defence between 1959 and 1962, when he was sacked in the Night of the Long Knives. In 1964 he was ennobled as Viscount Watkinson.