Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig (29 July 1926 – 16 September 2015) was a Scottish physician, educator, academic and former President of the General Medical Council.
The Lord Kilpatrick of Kincraig | |
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President of the General Medical Council | |
In office 1989–1995 | |
Professor of Medicine, University of Leicester | |
In office 1984–1989 | |
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Leicester | |
In office 1975–1983 | |
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Sheffield | |
In office 1966–1975 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Robert Kilpatrick 29 July 1926 Scotland |
Died | 16 September 2015 | (aged 89)
Occupation | Physician |
Life
editKilpatrick was educated at Buckhaven High School, and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1949 with a Bachelor of Surgery (ChB).
Having suffered from tuberculosis when he was younger and been one of the first patients to be treated with the antibiotic streptomycin, Kilpatrick was a patron of the charity TB Alert.[citation needed]
He died in 2015 at the age of 89.[1] He is buried in Dean Cemetery immediately to the south-west of the main entrance.
Career
editHe served as lecturer and dean at Sheffield, Leicester, Dundee and Edinburgh Universities.[2] He was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.[3]
Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1979,[4] he was knighted in 1986.[5] Announced in the 1996 New Year Honours,[6] he was created life peer as Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, of Dysart in the district of Kirkcaldy on 16 February 1996.[7] He sat as a crossbencher.
Family
editKilpatrick married Elizabeth (Bette) Gibson Page Forbes (1927–2019) in 1950. The couple had two sons and a daughter.
Honours and arms
edit- Hon DUniv Edinburgh, 1987
- Hon LLD Univ of Dundee, 1992
- Hon DSc Univ of Hull, 1994
- Hon DSc Univ of Leicester, 1994
- Hon LLD Univ of Sheffield, 1995
- Hon FRCPath, 1994
- Hon FRCS, 1995
- Hon FRCP (Dublin), 1995
- Hon FRCSEd, 1996
- FRCPE, 1963
- FRCP, 1975
- FRCP (Glasgow), 1991
- FRSE, 1998[2]
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Sources
editReferences
edit- ^ "KILPATRICK - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements".
- ^ a b Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig profile at Debretts.com
- ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
- ^ "No. 47888". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 June 1979. p. 52.
- ^ "No. 50444". The London Gazette. 28 February 1986. p. 2927.
- ^ "No. 54255". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1995. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 54323". The London Gazette. 21 February 1996. p. 2621.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2000.