Background
KENDELL, Robert was born on March 28, 1935 in Rotherham, Yorkshire. Son of Robert Owen Kendell and Joan Evans.
university teacher and psychiatrist
KENDELL, Robert was born on March 28, 1935 in Rotherham, Yorkshire. Son of Robert Owen Kendell and Joan Evans.
He attended Cambridge Medical School and after a brief stint in internal medicine he joined the Maudsley Hospital.
He trained under Sir Aubrey Lewis. Aged 38 he was appointed to the chair of psychiatry in Edinburgh. In 1990 he was made the Dean of the Medical School and four years later was appointed the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland.
In 1997 he was elected the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Doctor Robert Kendell died in 2002 of unknown causes.
World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health since 1979. Medical Research Council 1984-1988.
Married Ann Whitfield in 1961.