Bulletin Autumn 1989

Citations The Rt. Hon. Lord Butterfield of Stechford ， OBE ， KBE ， DM ， MD ， FRCP ， LLD(Hon )， DMedSci(Hon), DSc(Hon) The Rt. Hon. Lord Butterfield o f Stechford is an eminent British scientist and educator. For forty years, he devoted himself to medicine and education, making indelible marks in both Great Britain and Hong Kong. Bom in 1920, Lord Butterfield was educated at Solihull School and attended Exeter College, Oxford University. Medicine was his professional goal but he was also an outstanding athlete. He represented Oxford in the 1940-41 Rugby game against Cambridge, was captain of the hockey team from 1940 to 1942 and of the cricket team in 1942. After college, he earned a fine military service record. He was a Major in the Royal Army Medi cal Corps, Army Operational Research Group from 1947 to 1950. As a medical scientist, L o rd B u tte rfie ld holds M D degrees from both Johns Hopkins and Cambridge Univer sities and a DM degree from Oxford (Exeter College). From 1958 to 1971 ， he was professor o f medicine at Guy's Hospital and Medical School. He is the author o f several books and more than 100 articles on such topics as bums, diabetes, tolbutamide, priorities in medicine, and choice o f treatment. Both Oxford (1960-66) and Cambridge (1967-75) Universities invited him to serve as their examiner in medicine, and both Yale and Harvard Universities welcomed him as visiting professor. As an educator, Lord Butterfield has served as vice-chancellor o f Nottingham University (1971-75 )， master o f Downing College, Cambridge (1978-87) and vice-chancellor of Cambridge University (1983-85). Both the B ritish U n ive rs ity Grants Committee (1966-71) and the Hong Kong U n ive rs ity and Polytechnic Grants Committee (UPGC) (1975-83) have benefited from his services. He was o f course the chairman o f the Medical Sub-Committee o f the UPGC which planned and launched our medical school. To meet the urgency o f the planning, he introduced the procedure o f circulating the chairman's briefing notes to a ll members o f the comm ittee, to speed up decisions. Lord Butterfield has led the work of many national and international medical boards, committees and councils. A noted authority on diabetes, he served as chairman of the Bedford Diabetic Survey (1962), chairman of the British Diabetic Association (1967-74) and vice- president of the Council of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (1968-1971). Since 1964 he has been con sultant to WHO Expert Commit tee on Diabetes. Foundations and Trusts have enlisted his help in their work. He is currently the chairman of the Jardine Educational Trust, the Health Promotion Research Trust, and the Croucher Foundation, and a trustee of the GB-Sasakawa Foundation, among others. Not surprisingly, Lord Butterfield has received many honours and awards. Nottingham University, UK; Keio University, Japan; and Florida International University, USA; have conferred honorary degrees upon him. He was awarded an OBE in 1953, knighted in 1978 and made Baron Butterfield of Stechford in 1988. For his distinguished service to medicine and tertiary education in Great Britain and in Hong Kong, I present, Mr. Chancellor, Lord Butterfield for the award o f the degree o f Doctor o f Laws, honoris causa . 3