John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant

John Nicholas Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant, Kt. (16 September 1922 – 21 April 2016)[1] was a British neuroscientist and member of the House of Lords.

Life

Lord Walton qualified from Newcastle Medical School (then part of the University of Durham). Walton was President of the British Medical Association (BMA) from 1980-82, President of the General Medical Council (GMC) 1982-89 and President of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1984-86. He was also appointed second Warden of Green College, Oxford in 1983, where he stayed until 1989. Green College merged with Templeton College, Oxford in 2008 to become Green Templeton College, located on the site that was previously Green College.

Having been knighted in 1979,[2] Walton was created a life peer on 24 July 1989 as Baron Walton of Detchant, of Detchant in the County of Northumberland[3] and sat as a crossbencher. In 1992 he became a member of the Science and Technology Committee, leaving in 1996, returning in 1997 and leaving again in 2001. From 1993-94 he was Chair of the Medical Ethics committee. He was Secretary of the Rare Diseases Group from 2009 until his death.

He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[4] He was Patron of The Little Foundation, Honorary Life President of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, Vice President of Parkinson's UK and Honorary Chairman of the United Kingdom Medical Students' Association (UKMSA).

Death

Lord Walton of Detchant died on 21 April 2016, aged 93.[5]

Arms

Arms of John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant
Coronet
A Coronet of a Baron
Crest
Issuant from Clouds proper a Sea-Horse Argent the Piscine Part proper crined and finned Or holding between the forelegs a Cross Formy quadrate fitchy at the foot Purpure
Escutcheon
Paly wavy Argent and Gules a Castle triple towered Purpure on a Chief of the last three Crosses Formy quadrate Gold
Supporters
Dexter: a Boar Gold suspended from the neck by a Riband Purpure a Clarion pipes downwards Gules; Sinister: a Greyling Goose proper
Motto
DIEU DEFEND LE DROIT
French: GOD DEFEND THE RIGHT

References

  1. ↑ Notice of knighthood bestowed on John Nicholas Walton, the gazette.co.uk; accessed 27 April 2016.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 47812. p. 4623. 6 April 1979.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 51823. p. 8725. 27 July 1989.
  4. ↑ "Gruppe 7: Medisinske fag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  5. ↑ Notice of death of Lord Walton of Detchant, parliament.uk; accessed 27 April 2016.

External links

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