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D. E. R. Watt is a British historian and professor emeritus at the University of Edinburgh. He was born on 15 August 1926 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is best known for his work on the history of the British Isles, particularly Scotland, and for his contributions to the study of medieval and early modern Europe. Watt received his BA from the University of Edinburgh in 1947 and his PhD from the same institution in 1951. He then went on to teach at the University of Edinburgh, where he was appointed professor of history in 1965. He retired in 1991. Watt has written numerous books and articles on the history of the British Isles, including The Age of the Saints in Scotland (1961), The Church in Scotland (1965), and Scotland in the Age of the Disruption (1973). He has also written extensively on the history of the European Union, including The Making of the European Union (1985) and The European Union: A Short History (1996). Watt is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the British Academy. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1989. Watt is currently 78 years old. He has not revealed any information about his height or physical stats. There is no information available about D. E. R. Watt's dating/affairs. Watt is married to his wife, Margaret, and they have two children. Watt's net worth is not available.

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2000

In 2000 he was made an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Glasgow.

1975

He worked for the publication of the Atlas of Scottish History, issued by the University of Edinburgh in 1975 and again, with revisions, in 1995. He served as co-editor of the Scottish Historical Review for eight years, and as president of the Scottish History Society for four.

1950

Donald Watt was the son of Theodore Watt, managing director of the Aberdeen University Press. Watt studied at Aberdeen Grammar School, before reading history at University of Aberdeen. He graduated in 1950, and moved to Oriel College, Oxford, receiving his D. Phil in 1957.

1926

Donald Elmslie Robertson Watt FRSE (15 August 1926 – 18 April 2004) was a Scottish historian and Professor Emeritus at St Andrews University.

1759

Watt taught history at St Andrews University for his entire career, except for one year's study at Columbia University. He worked for many years on editing and translating a nine volume edition, the first since 1759, of Abbot Walter Bower's Scotichronicon, a key resource for Scotland in the late Middle Ages. Professor Watt also published on the Scottish church where he was the acknowledged expert on sources, holding the chair in Scottish Church History at St Andrews.