David Galton

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

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

He studied medicine at Hackney Downs School (formerly The Grocers' Company's School) followed by Trinity College, Cambridge, and at University College Hospital,

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.

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