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Roderick Watson (born 1943) is a Scottish poet born in Aberdeen. He is a professor emeritus in English Studies at the University of Stirling.Watson was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School Aberdeen University and the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse) where his doctoral thesis was on the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid. He was later to write a critical study of MacDiarmid whom he met and befriended as a student.