Sir John Peebles Arbuthnott, PPRSE, FRCPSG, FMedSci, FRCPath (born 8 April 1939) is a Scottish

microbiologist A microbiologist (from Ancient Greek, Greek ) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes. This includes study of the growth, interactions and characteristics of Microorganism, microscopic organisms such as bacteria, algae, f ...

, and was Principal of the

University of Strathclyde The University of Strathclyde ( gd, Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, it is Glasgow's second-oldest university, having received its royal chart ...

. He succeeded Lord Wilson of Tillyorn as President of The

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...

in October 2011 and was succeeded by

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in October 2014. He served as Prinicpal and Vice Chancellor of the

between 1991 and 2000.

Education

Arbuthnott was educated at Hyndland Senior Secondary School, Glasgow University (

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PhD PHD or PhD may refer to: * Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification Entertainment * '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series * ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic * Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group ** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ...

), and

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

( MA, ScD). In 1998, he was made a

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for services to education. Whilst Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Strathclyde University, Arbuthnott chaired the ''National Review of Resource Allocation ("The Arbuthnott Report"'' and ''"the Arbuthnott Review"'') in December 1997, the principal task of which was to conduct an independent review of the way in which NHS money is allocated annually to the 14 Scottish NHS Boards. The resulting mechanism, known as the Arbuthnott Formula, assesses key indicators of population, inequality and deprivation of the areas covered by each of the boards to allocate money. He was chair of the

Arbuthnott Commission The Arbuthnott Commission on Boundary Differences and Voting Systems was set up in July 2004 by Alistair Darling, then Secretary of State for Scotland, under the chairmanship of Sir John Arbuthnott, to examine various consequences of having four ...

set up in 2004 to consider the consequences of having four separate voting systems for elections in Scotland and also different boundaries for Holyrood and Westminster constituencies.

Professional posts

* Glasgow University: ** Assistant lecturer, 1960–1963 ** Lecturer, 1963–1967 * New York Medical Center: Visiting lecturer, 1966–1967 *

Royal Society of London The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

: Research fellow, 1968–72 * Glasgow University: Senior lecturer, Department of Bacteriology, 1972–1975 *

: ** Professor of microbiology 1976-1988 ** Bursar, 1983–86 *

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...

: Professor of microbiology 1988-1991 *

, Glasgow: Principal and Vice-Chancellor, 1991–2000

Professional committee work

* Chairman, Expert Group on Labour's plan for

National Care Service The National Care Service (NCS) is a proposed publicly funded system of social care in the United Kingdom which was partially introduced by the Labour government of Gordon Brown in 2010 but abandoned soon after when the coalition government of D ...

* Chairman,

Joint Information Systems Committee Jisc is a United Kingdom not-for-profit company that provides network and IT services and digital resources in support of further and higher education institutions and research as well as not-for-profits and the public sector. History T ...

, 1993–98 * Chairman,

Greater Glasgow Health Board NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is an NHS board in West Central Scotland, created from the amalgamation of NHS Greater Glasgow and part of NHS Argyll and Clyde on 1 April 2006. It is the largest health board in both Scotland, and the UK, which c ...

, November 2002- * Chairman, Commission Report on Boundary Differences and Voting Systems, 2005-6 * Convener,

Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...

, 1994–1996 * Convener, National Review of Allocation of Health Resources in Scotland, 1997–1999 * Vice Chairman,

CVCP Universities UK (UUK) is an advocacy organisation for universities in the United Kingdom. It began life in the early 20th century through informal meetings of vice-chancellors of a number of universities and principals of university colleges and ...

, 1997–99 * Dr Campbell Christie and Arbuthnott eports on public service delivery and resource allocation* Secretary-Treasurer,

Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland is a charitable trust established by Andrew Carnegie in 1901 for the benefit of the universities of Scotland, their students and their staff. The incorporation of the Trust was by royal cha ...

, 2000- * Member of the council,

Society of General Microbiology The Microbiology Society (previously the Society for General Microbiology) is a learned society based in the United Kingdom with a worldwide membership based in universities, industry, hospitals, research institutes and schools. It is the large ...

1981–1986, (senior ed 1980–1984, treasurer 1987–1992) * Meetings secretary,

Federation of European Microbiology Societies Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) is an international European scientific organization, formed by the union of a number of national organizations; there are now 57 members from 41 European countries, regular and provisional. ...

, 1986–1990 * Member, Microbiological Safety of Food Committee, 1989–1990 * Member, AFRC Animal Research Board, 1989–1992 * Member, Public Health Laboratory Service Board, 1991–1997 * Member,

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Multimedia Advisory Group, 1994–1996 * Member, Educational Counselling Service Board, British Council, 1995–1996 * Member,

Glasgow Development Agency Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...

, 1995- * Member,

National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education The Dearing Report, formally known as the reports of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, is a series of major reports into the future of Higher Education in the United Kingdom, published in 1997. The report was commissioned by ...

, 1996–97 * Member, Scottish Science Trust, 1999 * Member,

Pathological Society The Pathological Society is a professional organisation of Great Britain and Ireland whose mission is stated as 'understanding disease'. Membership and profile The membership of the society is mainly drawn from the UK and includes an internat ...

Professional honours

* Honorary fellow, Trinity College, Dublin 1992 * MRIA 1985 * FSB 1988 * FRSA 1989 *

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

1993 * FIIB 1993 * FRCPath 1995 * Honorary degree of Lodz University of Technology,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

, May 1995 * Hon FRCPGlasg * St Mungo Prize 2010 * Hon Doctor of Science St Margaret University, Edinburgh, July 2000

Publications

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References

External links

NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee
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