Walter Perry
Walter Perry (later Lord Perry of Walton) was a distinguished academic. He obtained a degree in Pharmacology at St Andrews University. Between 1944 and 1946 he worked as a Medical Officer in Nigeria, then a British colony known as, "The Gold Coast". He later worked as a Scientist for institutions like the Medical Research Council. In particular he became an expert on polio. He had a reputation for following the Scientific Method rigorously.
He developed his career at Edinburgh University as Professor of Pharmacology, later Dean of Medicine and Vice Principal. He was the first Vice Chancellor of the Open University and made that university into an effective institution proving that sceptics had been wrong. Walter Perry worked further to develop distance learning through the United Nations.
On entering the House of Lords in 1979 Lord Perry became a Liberal Democrat and served on the committee dealing with science and technology. He kept working right up to his death in 2003.
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