Background
PATON, William Drummond Macdonald. Kt. was born on May 5, 1917 in Hendon, London. Son of Reverend William Paton and Grace Mackenzie Macdonald.
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William Drummond Macdonald. Kt. PATON
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Winchester House School, Repton School, Oxford University and University College Hospital Medical School.
Career
Professor, of Pharmacology1, Royal College, of Surgeons, London 59. Professor, of Pharmacology, Oxford University, and Fellow Balliol College 84. Honorary Director Wellcome Institute for History of Medicine 1983-1987.
Secretary Physiological Society 1951-1957. Medical Research Council 1963-1967. Council of Royal Society 1967-1969.
Jt.; Chairman Research Defence Society 1972-1977, Smithkline Foundation 1983-1987. Trustee, Rhodes Trust 1968-1987 (Chairman 1978-1982), Wellcome Trust 1978-1987. Honorary F.F.A.R.C.S. 1975.
Honorary Doctor of Science (London) 1985, (Edinburgh) 1987. Honorary D. University (Surrey) 1986. Cameron; Lecturer 1958.
Paget Lecturer 1978; Bertram Louis Abraham Lecturer (R.C.P.) 1962. Osier Oration (R.C.P.) 1978.
Membership
Staff National Institute for Med. Research 1944-1952.
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Married Phoebe Margaret Rooke in 1942.
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British