David Galton

Not to be confused with the British physician and researcher David J. Galton.

David Abraham Goitein Galton CBE FRCP (1922-2006) was a British physician, specialising in haematology.

Professor David Galton CBE, FRCP
Born	David Abraham Goitein Galton (1922-03-01)1 March 1922 London, England
Died	(2006-11-28)28 November 2006
Nationality	United Kingdom
Occupations	Physician Haematologist

Galton was born on 1 March 1922 in London,^[1] the son of a GP, Bernard, a Hungarian immigrant who had changed his surname from Goitein.^[2]

He studied Medicine at Hackney Downs School (formerly The Grocers' Company's School) followed by Trinity College, Cambridge, and at University College Hospital,^[2] graduating in 1946.^[3]

He was Professor of Haemato-Oncology in the University of London at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Honorary Consultant Physician at the Hammersmith Hospital.^[3]

He served as secretary to the Medical Research Council's working party on leukaemia, and later chaired its working party on leukaemia in adults, and its steering Committee on Leukaemia.^[3]

He also served as Honorary Director of the MRC's Leukaemia Unit and Leukaemia Research Fund.^[3]

He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)^[3] and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1986 Birthday Honours.^[4]

He died on 28 November 2006.^[1] A collection of his papers is held at the Wellcome Library in London.^[3]