Harold Watkinson

The Right Honourable The Viscount Watkinson CH PC
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	(1910-01-25)25 January 1910
Died	19 December 1995(1995-12-19) (aged 85)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	King'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.