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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on November 3, 2008
Rheumatology 2009 48(1):92; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken400
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

OBITUARY

Prof. Kenneth W. W. Walton

P. A. Bacon1 and D. L. Scott2

1Department of Rheumatology, The Medical School, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston and 2Department of Rheumatology, KCL School of Medicine, London, UK

Correspondence to: D. L. Scott, Department of Rheumatology, KCL School of Medicine, Weston Education Centre, 10 Cutcombe Road, London SE5 9RS, UK. E-mail: david.l.scott@kcl.ac.uk

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Kenneth Walton died at the end of April 2008. His death represents the end of an earlier period of British rheumatology. He was one of a small number of experimental pathologists who helped create the scientific era that we currently enjoy within our speciality. Born in Lahore in 1919, the son of a British serviceman, he trained at University College and University College Hospital London, qualifying in 1942. As a house officer at St John and Elizabeth Hospital, he dealt with bomb casualties in London. He subsequently served in the RAMC, travelling to India and Burma. He ended his service career in 1947 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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