John William Magarey Lawton

He studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, graduating Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Science in 1963, working as a resident medical officer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital 1963–1964 and the Adelaide Children's Hospital 1964–1965. He worked as a research fellow, University of Adelaide 1965–1967. He continued his studies, gaining his Doctor of Medicine in 1968 and worked as registrar at Royal Adelaide Hospital 1968–1970. He left for America, gaining further research experience at the department of microbiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1970–1972, then spent three years at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh as senior registrar, haematology and blood transfusion. It was here he admitted to MRCP.^[6]

He emigrated to Hong Kong in 1975 as senior lecturer in Pathology from 15 September 1975^[6] with the pathology department, University of Hong Kong.

By 1984, he was a professor at HKU.^[7]

Since 2004, Lawton retired and returned to Australia to live in Adelaide.^[8]

When in Hong Kong his relaxations were listed as hiking, squash, swimming and sailing. He was learning to speak Chinese.^[6] He also enjoys playing piano, and is a renowned violinist having played in several orchestras^[which?] in Australia.

Lawton was father to four children, David, Stephanie, Daniel (deceased), and Andrew (deceased).^{[citation needed]}