Harold Watkinson

The Viscount Watkinson
Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation
In office
20 December 1955 – 14 October 1959
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterSir Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Preceded byJohn Boyd-Carpenter
Succeeded byErnest Marples
Minister of Defence
In office
14 October 1959 – 13 July 1962
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan
Preceded byDuncan Sandys
Succeeded byPeter Thorneycroft
Member of Parliament
for Woking
In office
23 February 1950 – 26 June 1964
Preceded byConstituency created
Succeeded byCranley Onslow
Personal details
Born(1910-01-25)25 January 1910
Died19 December 1995(1995-12-19) (aged 85)
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
Alma materKing's College London

Harold Arthur Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson, CH, PC (25 January 1910, in Walton on Thames – 19 December 1995, in Bosham) 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.