UK Elections Info

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Born: 25 January 1910, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey

Died: 19 December 1995

1st Viscount Watkinson - 26 June 1964

Member of Privy Council - 22 December 1955

Queen's College, Taunton

King's College, London

Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation	January 1957	October 1959
Minister of Defence	14 October 1959	13 July 1962

23 February 1950	Woking	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,454	57.98
25 October 1951	Woking	Conservative & Unionist Party	26,522	64.95
26 May 1955	Woking	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,860	64.41
8 October 1959	Woking	Conservative & Unionist Party	33,521	67.40
26 June 1964 Elevation of Rt Hon Harold Watkinson to the Peerage - Viscount Watkinson.