1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Richmond Constituency – Biography of Watt

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Richmond

CANDIDATE : Watt

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir George Harvie Watt, K.C., has been M.P. for Richmond since 1937, and represented Keighley 1931-35. During the war he was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Churchill. He was a member of Kensington Borourfr Council from 1934 to 1945, and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey in 1942. He was educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, 1930, practising in London and on the N.E. Circuit. He is actively interested in the Territorial Army and is a director in several companies. He was given a baronetcy in 1945.

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