Background
WALTON, LORD WALTON OF DETCHANT was born on September 16, 1922 in Rowlands Gill, County Durham. Parents: Herbert Walton and Eleanor Watson Walton (née Ward).
WALTON, LORD WALTON OF DETCHANT was born on September 16, 1922 in Rowlands Gill, County Durham. Parents: Herbert Walton and Eleanor Watson Walton (née Ward).
King’s College Medical School, University of Durham, B.Sc, Bachelor of Medicine, 1940-1945. Spoken languages: English, some French.
Member, House of Lords Select Committee, Science and Technology, Sub-Cttee. I, Systematic Biology Research, 1991, Sub-Cttee. II. Forensic Science, 1992.
House of Lords Library Committee, 1991, Library and Computers Committee, 1992. Consultant neurologist, Newcastle upon Tyne General Hospital, 1958-1983. Professor, of Neurology, 1968-1983, Dean of Medicine, 1971-1981, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.
President, British Medical Association, 1980-1982. President, General Medical Council, 1982-1989. Warden, Green College, Oxford, 1983-1989.
President, Royal Society of Medicine, 1984-1986. President, World Federation of Neurology, 1989-Chmn., Hamlyn Foundation National Commission on education, 1991-1993.
Methodist
Member. Parliamentary Scientific Committee. Clubs: member. Athenaeum. Member. United Oxford and Cambridge Club.
Member. Frilford Heath Golf Club. Member, Bamburgh Castle Golf Club. Member, Marylebone Cricket Club.
Spouse Lady Mary Elizabeth Walton (née Harrison), 1946. Children: Ann, Judith, Christopher.