Kenneth Rawnsley
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Professor Kenneth Rawnsley,
CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
, (1926-1992) of
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was an English psychiatrist who served as the president of the
Royal College of Psychiatrists The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the main professional organisation of psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for representing psychiatrists, for psychiatric research and for providing public information about mental health ...
from 1981 to 1984. Rawnsley was brought up and educated in
Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Bru ...
, Lancashire, later studying at
Manchester University , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
, where he obtained his medical qualification in 1948. He worked for a time in
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, on the Stirling County Epidemiological Project, before joining the Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Unit in London and Cardiff.


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Fellows of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 1926 births 1992 deaths People educated at Burnley Grammar School Commanders of the Order of the British Empire People from Halifax, West Yorkshire People from Burnley {{UK-med-bio-stub