Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor The Right Honourable
The Lord Kilpatrick of Kincraig
Office:President of the General Medical Council
Term Start:1989
Term End:1995
Office2:Professor of Medicine, University of Leicester
Term Start2:1984
Term End2:1989
Office3:Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Leicester
Term Start3:1975
Term End3:1983
Office4:Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Sheffield
Term Start4:1966
Term End4:1975
Birth Name:Robert Kilpatrick
Birth Date:29 July 1926
Birth Place:Scotland
Occupation:Physician

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.

Life

Kilpatrick 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.

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

He 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, he was knighted in 1986. Announced in the 1996 New Year Honours, he was created life peer as Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, of Dysart in the district of Kirkcaldy on 16 February 1996. He sat as a crossbencher.

Family

Kilpatrick married Elizabeth (Bette) Gibson Page Forbes (1927–2019) in 1950. The couple had two sons and a daughter.

Honours and arms

Escutcheon:Per chevron Sable and Or in chief a plate charged with a saltire Gules accompanied by two swans respectant with wings expanded Proper and in base in a sea undy Azure and Argent a three masted ship Sable sails Proper and flagged of Scotland.
Crest:A swan’s head neck erased Proper holding in the beak a veronica flower slipped Proper.
Motto:Laborare Semper Laborare [4]

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: KILPATRICK - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements .
  2. http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/k/9353/Robert+Kilpatrick.aspx Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig profile at Debretts.com
  3. Book: Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
  4. Book: Debrett's Peerage . 2000.