Professor Kenneth Rawnsley, CBE, (1926–1992)[1] of University Hospital of Wales was an English psychiatrist who served as the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 1981 to 1984.[2]

Portrait commissioned by the Royal College of Psychiatrists on his election as president

Rawnsley was brought up and educated in Burnley, Lancashire, later studying at Manchester University, where he obtained his medical qualification in 1948.[3] He worked for a time in Canada, on the Stirling County Epidemiological Project, before joining the Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Unit in London and Cardiff.

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  1. ^ "Munk's Roll Details for Kenneth Rawnsley". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  2. ^ Roll of Honour, March 2015, College Officers. Archived 16 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine Royal College of Psychiatrists, March 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  3. ^ Henry R. Rollin (1992), "Obituary: Kenneth Rawnsley" (PDF), Psychiatric Bulletin, 16, The Royal College of Psychiatrists: 587–589, doi:10.1192/pb.16.9.587, retrieved 13 February 2016