Portrait commissioned by the Royal College of Psychiatrists on his election as president

Professor Kenneth Rawnsley, CBE, (1926-1992)[1] of University Hospital of Wales was an English psychiatrist who served as the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 1981 to 1984.[2]

Rawnsley was brought up and educated in Burnley, Lancashire, later studying at Manchester University, where he obtained his medical qualification in 1948.[3] He worked for a time in Canada, on the Stirling County Epidemiological Project, before joining the Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Unit in London and Cardiff.

References

  1. ↑ "Munk's Roll Details for Kenneth Rawnsley". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Roll of Honour, March 2015, College Officers. Archived 16 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine Royal College of Psychiatrists, March 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  3. ↑ Henry R. Rollin (1992), "Obituary: Kenneth Rawnsley" (PDF), Psychiatric Bulletin, The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 16: 587–589, doi:10.1192/pb.16.9.587, retrieved 13 February 2016


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