Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig

Kilpatrick was educated at Buckhaven High School, and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1949 with a Bachelor of Surgery (ChB).

Having suffered from tuberculosis when he was younger and been one of the first patients to be treated with the antibiotic streptomycin, Kilpatrick was a patron of the charity TB Alert.

He served as lecturer and dean at Sheffield, Leicester, Dundee and Edinburgh Universities.

[3] Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1979,[4] he was knighted in 1986.

[5] Announced in the 1996 New Year Honours,[6] he was created life peer as Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, of Dysart in the district of Kirkcaldy on 16 February 1996.