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Hugh Watt was Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1972 to 1974.

Hugh Watt New Zealand politician

Hugh Watt was a Labour member of Parliament and the Interim Prime Minister of New Zealand between 1 and 6 September 1974, following the death of Prime Minister Norman Kirk. He had been Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand since 8 December 1972. Watt later served as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

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Hugh Watt was a physician and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cariboo in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1892 to 1894.

Hugh Watt was a Scottish merchant and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892. His career ended in scandal and imprisonment.

Very Rev Principal Hugh Watt DD DLitt was a 20th-century Scottish minister and historian. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1950. He was president of the Scottish Church History Society 1938 to 1941.

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Hugh Edmund Watts was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset as an amateur player before and after the Second World War. He also played for Cambridge University in 1947, winning a blue by playing in the annual Varsity cricket match against Oxford. In his working life, he was a schoolmaster, and most of his first-class cricket was played in school holiday times.

Watt is a unit of power named after Scottish engineer James Watt.

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