Researching John Watkinson
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 3508 people with the Watkinson surname? In that year Watkinson was ranked number 1195 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
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John Watkinson
John Taylor Watkinson (25 January 1941 – 21 September 2004) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister and teacher.
He was educated at Bristol Grammar School before reading PPE at Worcester College, Oxford. From graduation until 1971 he was a schoolmaster at Rugby, and thereafter was called to the Bar, where he practised on the Midland Circuit.
Watkinson was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gloucestershire West in the October 1974 general election, but lost the seat in 1979 to the Conservative Paul Marland.
Watkinson was on the moderate 'right' wing of the Labour Party, but was relatively unusual for a member of that bloc in voting for Britain's withdrawal from the European Economic Community (EEC) during the referendum on membership in 1975. He defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in October 1981, and contested Gloucestershire West under his new colours in 1983 and 1987.
Source: John Watkinson, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Watkinson (chemist)
John Herbert Watkinson (27 August 1932 – 14 February 2017) was a New Zealand soil chemist.
Watkinson studied at Victoria University College, graduating with a BSc in 1953. He later completed a PhD at the same institution in 1969, following its attainment of autonomy as Victoria University of Wellington. His thesis, supervised by Alex Wilson, was titled The kinetics of ion exchange in soil. Watkinson worked at the Ruakura Agricultural Research Centre, and he is noted for developing the fluorometric determination of selenium in biological samples, and his research into selenium fertilisers and the determination of the optimum particle sizes for elemental sulphur and reactive phosphate rock. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1994, and was also a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Studies.
Watkinson died aged 84 in Hamilton on 14 February 2017.
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