Diarmid Noel Paton

Diarmid Noel Paton, FRS, FRSE (19 March 1859 – 30 September 1928), known as Noel Paton, was a Scottish physician and academic. From 1906 to 1928, he was the Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow.[1]

37 Drummond Place, Edinburgh
Diarmid Noel Paton

BSc. MD, FRS, FRSE
Born(1859-03-19)19 March 1859
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died30 September 1928(1928-09-30) (aged 69)
Stobo
OccupationPhysician, Regius Professor of Physiology
EmployerUniversity of Glasgow
RelativesJoseph Noel Paton (father), Amelia Robertson Hill (aunt), Waller Hugh Paton (uncle)

Personal life and education

Paton was born at 37 Drummond Place[2] in Edinburgh's New Town, the son of Margaret (née Ferrier) and Joseph Noel Paton. His father worked as an artist. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, and graduated with a BSc in 1880 and MB, CM, along with first-class honours in 1882.[3]

In 1898 he married Agatha (Agate) Henrietta Balfour. They were parents to Donald Noel Paton and Olivia Campbell Paton.[4]

He died while walking along the banks of the River Tweed near his home at Stobo in the Scottish Borders on 30 September 1928.[5]

Career

Paton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1886. His proposers were William Rutherford, Andrew Douglas Maclagan, Sir William Turner and Peter Guthrie Tait. He served as Vice President of the Society 1918 to 1921. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914.[6] In 1889 he was appointed Director of the research laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and devoted his time increasingly to research and teaching. During this time he taught at the Edinburgh Extramural School of Medicine, giving lectures in physiology at Surgeons Hall.[5] He was appointed to the Regius Chair of Physiology at the University of Glasgow in 1906.

His early research in Edinburgh had centred on diabetes, rickets and the physiology of nutrition. In Glasgow he expanded on these, researching the physiology and pathology of the parathyyoid glands. His interest in nutrition continued. In Glasgow at that time deprivation was common and Paton investigated the relationship between poverty, nutrition, and growth.

References
  1. "Noel Paton". The University of Glasgow Story. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  2. Edinburgh Post Offivce Directory 1859
  3. Paton, Diarmid Noel (1885). On the relationship of urea formation to bile secretion (Thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/24212.
  4. https://www.geni.com/people/Diarmid-Noel-Paton/4934675611840107485
  5. "DIARMID NOEL PATON, B.Sc., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S". Br Med J. 2 (3536): 679–80. 1928. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.3536.679. PMC 2456580. PMID 20774200.
  6. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
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