John Hunter Padel (3 May 1913 – 24 October 1999) was a British psychoanalyst and

classicist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

. He was born in Carlisle, where his father Charles Padel was headmaster of

Carlisle Grammar School Carlisle ( , ; from xcb, Caer Luel) is a city that lies within the Northern England, Northern English county of Cumbria, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, Scottish border at the confluence of the rivers River Eden, Cumbria, Eden, River C ...

. His mother was Mòrag (née Hunter), 3rd daughter of William Hunter, MD. He was named after his ancestor, the surgeon John Hunter. He gained a scholarship to

Queen's College, Oxford The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault. It is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassical architecture, ...

. He married Hilda Horatio Barlow, daughter of Sir Alan Barlow and Nora Darwin, in 1944. She was a granddaughter of

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended ...

. They had five children: *

Ruth Padel Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author, known for her poetic explorations of migration, both animal and human, and her involvement with classical music, wildlife conservation and Greece, ancient and modern. ...

(born 1946), the poet * Oliver James Padel (born 1948), mediaeval Cornish and Welsh historian * Nicola Mary Padel (born 1951), psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist * Felix John Padel (born 1955), anthropologist * Adam Frederick Padel (born 1958),

histopathologist Histopathology (compound of three Greek words: ''histos'' "tissue", πάθος ''pathos'' "suffering", and -λογία ''-logia'' "study of") refers to the microscopic examination of tissue in order to study the manifestations of disease. Spe ...

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Obituary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Volume 14, Number 1, 2000, pp. 81-82(2)
by Jane Temperley

Obituary in ''The Guardian''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Padel, John Hunter 1999 deaths British psychoanalysts 1913 births People from Carlisle, Cumbria Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford 20th-century British medical doctors