Emeritus professor and art collector;

Born: February 15, 1924; Died: July 13, 2012.

Henry Walton, who has died aged 88, was a world-renowned psychiatrist and medical educationist and outstanding art collector.

He was once a young medical student who toyed with the idea of becoming a painter. In the end his passion for psychiatry overtook his love of art, at least in his professional career. But the two remained intertwined. Art, he believed, was a necessity in everyone's life.

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