Name Robert Baron | Role Politician | |
Died September 16, 2015, Edinburgh, United Kingdom | ||
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.
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Appointed a Commander 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.
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.
Career
He served as lecturer and dean at Sheffield, Leicester, Dundee and Edinburgh Universities.
Honours and affiliations
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