The Harvie-Watt Baronetcy, of Bathgate

Bathgate

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 in the County of Linlithgow

Linlithgow

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, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 5 September 1945 for the Unionist politician George Harvie-Watt

George Harvie-Watt

George Steven Harvie-Watt was a British Conservative Party politician.Harvie-Watt studied at George Watson's College in Edinburgh, then at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh. In 1924, he was commissioned into the Territorial Army Royal Engineers...

. He represented Keighley

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 and Richmond

Richmond (Yorks) (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the House of Commons

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 and was Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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's Parliamentary Private Secretary from 1941 to 1945. As of 2011 the title is held by his son, the second Baronet, who succeeded in 1989.

Harvie-Watt Baronets, of Bathgate (1945)

• Sir George Harvie-Watt, 1st Baronet (1903–1989)
• Sir James Harvie-Watt, 2nd Baronet (b. 1940)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is Mark Harvie-Watt