Keith Watson (politician)

Sir Keith Watson
Watson in 1934
Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council
In office
8 May 1948 – 21 May 1968
ConstituencyMetropolitan Province
Personal details
Born
Henry Keith Watson

(1900-08-22)22 August 1900
Southern Cross, Western Australia, Australia
Died13 January 1973(1973-01-13) (aged 72)
Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
Political partyNationalist (to 1945)
Liberal (from 1945)
Spouse
Edith Symonds
(m. 1926)
OccupationAccountant
Company director
Public launch of the Dominion League at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth on 30 July 1930

Sir Henry Keith Watson (22 August 1900 – 13 January 1973) was an Australian businessman and politician. He was a leader of the Western Australian secession movement in the 1930s, holding office in the Dominion League of Western Australia. He was a prominent campaigner in the 1933 secession referendum and served on the delegation to the British parliament which ultimately failed to achieve the movement's aims. Watson later represented the Liberal Party in the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1948 to 1968. He was a tax accountant by profession and a long-serving chairman of the Perth Building Society.