Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig
Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, CBE (29 July 1926 – 16 September 2015) was a British politician, educator, academician, and former President of the General Medical Council.
Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1979,[1] he was knighted in 1986.[2] Announced in the 1996 New Year Honours,[3] he was created life peer as Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, of Dysart in the district of Kirkcaldy on 16 February 1996.[4]
Life
A member of the House of Lords since 1996, he sat as a crossbencher. 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.[5]
He is buried in Dean Cemetery immediately to the south-west of the main entrance.
Career
He served as lecturer and dean at Sheffield, Leicester, Dundee and Edinburgh Universities.[6]
Honours and affiliations
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- 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
Sources
References
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 47888. p. 52. 26 June 1979.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 50444. p. 2927. 28 February 1986.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 54255. p. 1. 29 December 1995.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 54323. p. 2621. 21 February 1996.
- ↑ http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/194822/kilpatrick
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig profile at Debretts.com
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