John William Magarey Lawton (born 24 April 1939[citation needed]) is an Australian immunologist and musician who had a career in Hong Kong.
[1] He grew up in comfortable surroundings in a close, musical, church-going family,[2] and was educated at Prince Alfred College, where he was a prize-winning student.
[3][4] He studied violin, gaining a Gladys Lloyd Thomas scholarship in 1954,[5] and was a member of the South Australian Symphony Orchestra.
He continued his studies, gaining his Doctor of Medicine in 1968 and worked as registrar at Royal Adelaide Hospital 1968–1970.
He left for America, gaining further research experience at the department of microbiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1970–1972, then spent three years at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh as senior registrar, haematology and blood transfusion.