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E009224 - Kilpatrick, Robert (Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig) (1926 - 2015)
Title:
Kilpatrick, Robert (Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig) (1926 - 2015)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons
Identifier:
RCS: E009224
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2016-07-29
Description:
Obituary for Kilpatrick, Robert (Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig) (1926 - 2015), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Kilpatrick, Robert (Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig)
Date of Birth:
29 July 1926
Date of Death:
16 September 2015
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MB ChB Edinburgh 1949;

MRCP Edinburgh 1953

MD 1961

FRCP Edinburgh 1964

MRCP 1969

FRCP 1975

CBE 1979

Kt 1986

DUniv 1987

FRCP Glasgow 1991

Hon LLD Dundee 1992

Hon DSc Hull 1994

Hon DSc Leicester 1994

Hon FRCPath 1994

Hon LLD Sheffield 1995

Hon FRCS 1995

Hon FRCPI 1995

Hon FRCS Edinburgh 1996

FRSE 1998
Details:
Lord Robert Kilpatrick was dean and professor of medicine at the University of Leicester Medical School, and a former president of the General Medical Council (GMC) and the British Medical Association (BMA). He was born in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland, the only child of Robert Kilpatrick, a mine worker. As a teenager, he contracted tuberculosis and spent months in hospital. He was educated at Buckhaven High School and then studied medicine at Edinburgh University, qualifying in 1949 with the Leslie gold medal. He was a medical registrar in Edinburgh from 1951 to 1954 and then a lecturer at the University of Sheffield from 1955 to 1966. During this period, he held a Rockefeller travelling fellowship at Harvard, where he conducted research on the pituitary gland. From 1966 to 1970 he was professor of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics at Sheffield. He was then dean of the faculty of medicine until 1973. From 1975 to 1989 he was dean of Leicester University Medical School, and also professor and head of the department of pharmacology and therapeutics from 1975 to 1983, and professor of medicine for five years from 1984. He was president of the GMC for six years from 1989, during which time he was involved in the development of *Good medical practice*, the core ethical guidance the GMC provides to doctors, and the *Performance procedures*, which allow assessment of a doctor’s professional performance. He was president of the BMA from 1997 to 1998. Having been awarded a CBE in 1979 and a knighthood in 1986, he was made a life peer in 1996. He spoke in many debates on health topics, particularly against euthanasia. He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth (née Forbes), whom he married in 1950, and their children – Neil, Kate and John. RCP editor [*The Scotsman* 31 October 2015 www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-robert-kilpatrick-baron-kilpatrick-of-kincraig-1-3933261 – accessed 5 November 2017; BMJ 2015 351 5727 www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h5727?variant=full-text&hwoasp=authn%3A1509978776%3A1019339%3A1455338737%3A0%3A0%3AOsDqwGs8edGjkKlm%2BuXcFQ%3D%3D – accessed 5 November 2017; University of Leicester Lord Kilpatrick of Kincraig www2.le.ac.uk/staff/community/people/bereavements/2015/lord-kilpatrick-of-kincraig – accessed 5 November 2017; Republished by kind permission of the Obituary Series for the Royal College of Physicians of London, Inspiring Physicians]
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009200-E009299
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Unknown