John Nicolas Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant (16 September 1922 – 21 April 2016[1]) was a British neuroscientist, academic, and life peer who sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

Walton qualified from Durham University College of Medicine and completed his MD at Newcastle Medical School.

[5] He was Patron of The Little Foundation, Honorary Life President of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, Vice President of Parkinson's UK and Honorary Chairman of the United Kingdom Medical Students' Association (UKMSA).

[citation needed] He wrote an autobiography The Spice of Life: From Northumbria to World Neurology in 1993.

It had 643 pages and, according to the review in the BMJ, “tells you absolutely everything [but] by the end of the book you really know nothing about him except that he has a colossal memory.” [6] Lord Walton of Detchant died on 21 April 2016, aged 93.