Bruce Watson (politician)

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Bruce Watson (Gaelic: Bruis Mac Uait); was a Scottish nationalist politician.

By profession a Professor of organic chemistry,^[1] Watson became active in the Scottish National Party (SNP). In 1945, the SNP Chairman Douglas Young resigned after the party banned members from also holding membership of British political parties.^[2] Watson held that attempting to win self-government through British parties was a waste of time,^[3] and took up the vacant party chairmanship without facing a challenge.^[2]

In 1946, Watson chaired a large conference in Perth which demanded self-government for Scotland.^[4] In 1947, he stood down from the Chairmanship of the SNP in order that he could be succeeded by Robert McIntyre, a former Member of Parliament and the best-known figure in the party.^[2]

Based in Aberdeen, Watson remained active in the SNP into the 1960s.^[5]

References

↑ Peter Lynch, SNP: the history of the Scottish National Party, p.4
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 James Halliday, "Challenging Convenors", Scots Independent, 26 September 2003
↑ Jim Lynch, Strategies for Self-government ISBN 0-7486-6113-1
↑ "Scottish National Party Demands Self Government", St. Petersburg Times, 29 May 1946
↑ Jim Lynch, "Correction", Scots Independent, 9 November 2001

Party political offices
Preceded by Douglas Young	National Chairman (Leader) of the Scottish National Party 1945–1947	Succeeded by Robert McIntyre

v t e Scottish National Party (SNP)

Leaders	MacEwan Gibb Power Young Watson McIntyre Halliday Donaldson Wolfe Wilson Swinney Salmond

Deputy Leaders	Wolfe Leslie Henderson Wilson MacDonald Henderson Fairlie Ewing Salmond Morgan Sillars Macartney Swinney Cunningham Sturgeon

Presidents	Graham Muirhead Gibson McIntyre Wolfe Stewart Ewing Hudghton

Members of the Scottish Parliament	Adam Adamson Allan Allard Beattie Biagi Brodie Brown Burgess A Campbell R Campbell Coffey Constance Crawford Cunningham Dey Don Doris Dornan Eadie A Ewing F Ewing Fabiani Finnie FitzPatrick K Gibson R Gibson Grahame Hepburn Hyslop Ingram Keir Kidd Lochhead Lyle MacAskill A MacDonald G MacDonald Mackay MacKenzie Mason Matheson Maxwell McAlpine M McDonald McKelvie A McLeod F McLeod McMillan Neil Paterson Robertson Robison Russell Salmond Stevenson Stewart Sturgeon Swinney Thompson Torrance Urquhart Watt Wheelhouse White Wilson Yousaf

Members of the UK Parliament	Hosie MacNeil Robertson Weir Whiteford Wishart

Members of the European Parliament	Hudghton Smith

Persondata
Name	Watson, Bruce
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Short description	Scottish politician
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