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About Harold Watkinson
Harold Arthur Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson, 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.
Everything about Harold Watkinson →- Occupation
- politician, businessperson
- Position held
- member of the House of Lords, Secretary of State for Defence, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, member of the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- January 25, 1910
- Died
- December 19, 1995