David Watkins (UK politician)
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David John Watkins (born 27 August 1925) was a British Labour Party politician.
Watkins was educated at South Central and Merrywood Grammar Schools, Bristol, and Bristol College of Technology. He was an engineering inspector and president of his branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. He served as a councillor on Bristol City Council 1954-57 and on the Bristol Education Committee from 1958.
Watkins contested Bristol North West in 1964. He was Member of Parliament for Consett from 1966 to 1983, when the seat was abolished in boundary changes.
[edit] References
- Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 & 1979
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
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