Frank Kearton, Baron Kearton

Frank Kearton, Baron Kearton OBE FRS FRSA was a British life peer in the House of Lords. He was also a scientist and industrialist and former Chancellor of the University of Bath. He usually known by his middle name of Frank, and was Frank Kearton OBE between 1945 and 1966, and Sir Frank Kearton OBE between 1966 and his elevation to the peerage in 1970.

Kearton was born to Christopher John Kearton, a bricklayer, and Lilian in Congleton, Cheshire although the family moved to Tunstall in the Potteries not long after his birth. He completed his secondary education at Hanley High School before going up to St Johns College, Oxford in 1929 as an open exhibitioner to read Chemistry. He graduated with a First in 1933 although he did not apply for the transferral of his BA to an Oxbridge MA until 1959.

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