Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig

The grave of Robert Kilpatrick, Lord Kilpatrick, Dean Cemetery

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]

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

(^[6])

• 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

• Hansard reference
• Parliament.uk

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. Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig profile at Debretts.com