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With the passing of Lord Walton of Detchant—Dr. John Walton—on April 21, 2016, neurology lost one of the most distinguished figures of our specialty and the man who was arguably the founding father of clinical myology. John Walton was born in the United Kingdom in Co. Durham on September 16, 1922. He began his medical career at Newcastle Medical School in 1941, graduating after a course shortened by World War II in 1945. After serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps, he returned to Newcastle as a medical registrar. Inspired by Dr. Henry Miller to become a neurologist, he joined Prof. F.J. Nattras, who directed him to study all of the patients in the region with neuromuscular disorders. He often cited an incident from that time as being a defining moment in his career: meeting a family with 3 sons with Duchenne dystrophy, with the inevitable awful prognosis. The outcome of that work was the seminal publication “On the classification, natural history and treatment of the myopathies.”1 In the monograph “Polymyositis,” written jointly with Raymond Adams,2 he showed how careful clinical and pathologic assessment could help prevent misdiagnosis, previously common, as muscular dystrophy.
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