About John Batten
Lived 1924 – 2013 (aged 89). John Batten was a British physician.
Sir John Charles Batten KCVO, FRCP (11 March 1924 – 2013) was a British physician, who served as physician to Queen Elizabeth II from 1974 to 1989.
Batten was born in Wandsworth to Kathleen Gladys, née Charles, and Raymond Wallis Batten, the latter a business executive and justice of the peace. He was educated at Mill Hill School graduated in medicine from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School in 1946.
He served as president of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust from 1986 to 2003; He was life vice president of the RNLI from 2000; a member of the board of governors of the Brompton Hospital from 1966 to 1969; and a trustee of the D'Oyly Carte Trust, as had been one of his grandfathers.
He died on 7 October 2013.
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John Batten was born on 11 March 1924 in Wandsworth.
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