Robert Winston, Baron Winston
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The Right Honourable Robert Winston FMedSci FRSA FRCP FRCOG FRSB FREng |
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Winston speaking about his book at Borders
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Robert Maurice Lipson Winston 15 July 1940 London, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Lira, Lady Winston (1973–present) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | The London Hospital Medical College, University of London |
| Occupation | Surgeon, scientist, television presenter, politician, and peer |
| Religion | Orthodox Judaism |
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| Website | robertwinston |
Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston FMedSci FRSA FRCP FRCOG FREng (born 15 July 1940) is a British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and Labour Party politician.
Robert Winston was born in London to Laurence Winston and Ruth Winston-Fox, and raised as an Orthodox Jew. His mother was Mayor of the former Borough of Southgate. Winston's polymath father died as a result of medical negligence when Winston was nine years old, which in spite of popular reports, was not the inspiration for his eventual career choice. Robert has two younger siblings: a sister, the artist Willow Winston, and a brother, Anthony.
Winston attended firstly Salcombe Preparatory School until the age of 7, followed by Colet Court and St Paul's School, later graduating from The London Hospital Medical College, University of London, in 1964 with a degree in medicine and surgery and achieved prominence as an expert in human fertility. For a brief time he gave up clinical medicine and worked as a theatre director, winning the National Directors' Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1969. On returning to academic medicine, he developed tubal microsurgery and various techniques in reproductive surgery, including sterilisation reversal. He performed the world's first Fallopian tubal transplant in 1979 but this technology was then superseded by in vitro fertilisation.
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