David Gibson-Watt, Baron Gibson-Watt

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James David Gibson-Watt, Baron Gibson-Watt

PC (11 September 1918 – 7 February 2002) was a British Conservative Party
politician.

Educated at

County Councillor
and chairman of the Livestock Export Council.

He was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for the

Privy Counsellor
in 1974.

Gibson-Watt later held public office as a

Historic Buildings Council
, Wales, 1975–79. He was also Chairman of Timber Growers United Kingdom, 1987–90 (Honorary President, 1993–98), a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society, and President of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, 1976 (chairman of the council, 1976–94).

In 1979 he was created a

Radnor.[3]

Gibson-Watt married Diana Hambro (born 1922), daughter of Sir Charles Hambro, in 1942, and their second son David Julian Gibson-Watt married Patricia Hewitt, a member of the Labour Party, who after their subsequent divorce was elected as an MP.

References

  1. ^ "No. 36083". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 July 1943. p. 3088.
  2. ^ "No. 37235". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 August 1945. p. 4267.
  3. ^ "No. 47953". The London Gazette. 13 September 1979. p. 11559.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
James Thomas
 Member of Parliament for Hereford
1956 – October 1974 		Succeeded by


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