Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig

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Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig FRCPE FRCP FRSE CBE (29 July 1926 – 16 September 2015) was a Scottish physician, educator, academic and former President of the General Medical Council.

Life[edit]

The grave of Lord Kilpatrick of Kincraig, Dean Cemetery

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.[citation needed]

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[edit]

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,[4] he was knighted in 1986.[5] Announced in the 1996 New Year Honours,[6] he was created life peer as Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, of Dysart in the district of Kirkcaldy on 16 February 1996.[7] He sat as a crossbencher.

Family[edit]

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

Honours and arms[edit]

  • 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[2]
Coat of arms of Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig
Crest
A swan’s head neck erased Proper holding in the beak a veronica flower slipped Proper.
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.
Motto
Laborare Semper Laborare [8]

Sources[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "KILPATRICK - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements".
  2. ^ a b Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig profile at Debretts.com
  3. ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
  4. ^ "No. 47888". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 June 1979. p. 52.
  5. ^ "No. 50444". The London Gazette. 28 February 1986. p. 2927.
  6. ^ "No. 54255". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1995. p. 1.
  7. ^ "No. 54323". The London Gazette. 21 February 1996. p. 2621.
  8. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2000.
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