John Nicholas Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant (1922-2016) FRCP

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

Correspondence and papers covering Lord Walton's career, including:

Parliamentary committee papers, including papers, reports, correspondence etc. on the BSE Inquiry (established 1998, reported 2000)

Draft book chapters on themes including: Intensive care; Kyphosis; Macaca; Medical education in the USA and Canada; Medical missionaries, mission hospitals and missionary societies; Foundations and charities in Canada; Cardiology: a history and a review of progress up to 1940; Naevus; Nicholas, Jospeh Guillaume Marie (1868-1900); Obesity; Immunologist; Hypotonia; Gymnastic therapy

Correspondence and papers (largely professional but some personal in nature), 1951-2007, on topics including:

RVI centenary, 2004-2006; St George's University Grenada, 2002-2006; HFEA appeal committee hearing re Newcastle Fertility Centre, 200; Documents on the appeal to MHRA by GW Pharmaceuticals re Sativex, 2005; Royal Society of Medicine, 2001-2007; Mobilisation papers, 1954-1981; Newcastle Cathedral Trust, 1982-1983; Mike Mihalakis correspondence, 1971-1974; GMC Council, 1979-1998; BMA Presidency; Miscellaneous societies, 1993-2005; World Federation of Neurology, 1999-2005; Newcastle University, 1989-2005; Academy of Medical Sciences, 2001-2005; Durham and Newcastle Medical Graduates Society, 2001-2005; Green College, 2000-2003; Belford Development Trust, 2003-2006; Newcastle Congress, 1974 (registration book and photos); Contributors to the Oxford Companion to Medicine

Please note that the archive contains personal data that is potentially highly sensitive in nature, including records of a GMC case, 2003, private practice patient files and case notes, and practice correspondence, incl domicilary visits, 1979-1990. When the archive is catalogued, sensitive personal data will require closure in accordance with the 1998 Data Protection Act (for example, patient records would be closed for the lifetime of the data subjects). Until the dates of the patient material in the archive have been confirmed it is impossible to say for how long such material would be closed, but based on the date span 1979-1990, we anticipate that it will not be possible to make patient records from the archive available for research before approximately 2064 at the earliest. For fuller information on how the library handles sensitive archival data, see our Access to Archives policy.

1951-2007

165 box files, 60 small boxes, 2 large boxes 10 transfer boxes

Given to the library at Wellcome Collection by Lord Walton of Detchant in 2002 and 2007.

John Nicholas Walton qualified from Newcastle Medical School (then part of the University of Durham). Walton was President of the British Medical Association 1980-1982, President of the General Medical Council 1982-1989 and President of the Royal Society of Medicine 1984-1986. He was also appointed second Warden of Green College, Oxford 1983-1989.

He was created a life peer in 1989 as Baron Walton of Detchant and sits as a crossbencher. From 1992-2001 he was a member of the Science and Technology Committee, and From 1993-1994 was Chair of the Medical Ethics committee. Since 2009 he has been Secretary of the Rare Diseases Group.

He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 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.

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