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Hamish Watt was a Scottish politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Banff and Buchan constituency from 1979 to 1997. He was born in Keith, Scotland, on 27 December 1925.
Watt was educated at the University of Aberdeen, where he studied law. He was called to the Bar of Scotland in 1951 and was a practising solicitor in Banff from 1952 to 1979.
Watt was a member of the Conservative Party and was elected to the House of Commons in 1979. He served as a backbench MP until 1997, when he retired from politics.
Watt was a strong advocate for the fishing industry in Scotland and was a member of the Fisheries Committee from 1983 to 1997. He was also a member of the Scottish Grand Committee from 1983 to 1997.
Watt was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1997. He died on 28 April 2014, aged 88.
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Donaldson died aged 88, at his home in Portgordon, on 12 April 2014.
His daughter, Maureen Watt, became an MSP in 2006, and his grandson, Stuart Donaldson, (Maureen's son) was elected in 2015 as the MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine.
In the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, he stood as an independent candidate for Gordon, but finished fifth.
Donaldson was awarded an honorary LLD by the University of Aberdeen in 1988.
He was later a regional and district councillor with Moray District Council, and Grampian Regional Council from 1985 to 1990 (including serving as chairman of the Grampian Education Committee from 1986 to 1990). He sought reselection as an SNP candidate in the Grampian region, but was turned down by the party.
He was Rector of the University of Aberdeen from 1985 to 1988. Latterly, he was a newspaper columnist, after-dinner speaker and author. He was parodied as "Hamish Banff" in the 7:84 theatre company's play Little Red Hen.
He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Banffshire seat in the Feb 1974 general election, holding it until the 1979 election. He was one of 11 SNP MPs elected in 1974. In October, he was announced as the SNP's spokesperson on agriculture and fisheries. Later in this parliamentary session, he spent two years as the party's chief whip. After a boundary change, he was the unsuccessful SNP candidate for Moray in the 1983 UK general election.
He contested Caithness and Sutherland as the Conservative candidate in 1966. He then switched to the Scottish National Party (SNP), contesting Banffshire in 1970.
Hamish Watt (27 December 1925 – 12 April 2014) was a Scottish politician, farmer and writer. He was the SNP MP for Banffshire from 1974 to 1979, and was later Rector of the University of Aberdeen and a councillor.
He was born on 27 December 1925 in Keith, Scotland. The son of William Watt and Caroline Allan, he was educated at Keith Grammar School and at the University of St Andrews. and was involved in dairy and sheep farming and other business interests.
