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 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. He died in 2015 at the age of 89.[5]

Career

He served as lecturer and dean at Sheffield, Leicester, Dundee and Edinburgh Universities.[6]

Honours and affiliations

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Sources

References

  1. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 47888. p. 52. 26 June 1979.
  2. The London Gazette: no. 50444. p. 2927. 28 February 1986.
  3. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 54255. p. 1. 29 December 1995.
  4. The London Gazette: no. 54323. p. 2621. 21 February 1996.
  5. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/194822/kilpatrick
  6. 1 2 Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig profile at Debretts.com


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