the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health, which led to the publication of the eponymous Acheson Report. In 1998 he delivered the Harveian Oration to the Royal College of Physicians. Acheson was President of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland (1979) and the British Medical Association (1996–97). He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS), Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG), Faculty of Public Health Medicine (FFPHM), and Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FFOM). In 1986 he was appointed Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. He held honorary doctorates from the University of Southampton (DM 1984), University of Newcastle (DSc 1984), Queen's University of Belfast (MD 1987), University of Aberdeen (LLD 1988), University of Nottingham (MD 1989), University of Birmingham (MD 1991), University of Salford (DSc 1991), and University of Ulster (DSc 1994). Autobiography One Doctor's Odyssey – the Social Lesion (2007). . (Abramis Academic Press). References Further reading Debrett's People of Today (12th edn, London, 1999), p. 5 External links Sir Donald Acheson – Daily Telegraph obituary 1926 births 2010 deaths People educated at Merchiston Castle School Academics of the University of Southampton Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Academics of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Academics of University College London McMaster University faculty Royal Air Force squadron leaders Fellows of University College, Oxford Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Chief Medical Officers for England Royal Air Force Medical Service officers Léon Bernard Foundation Prize laureates