{{Short description|Scottish doctor and cancer researcher (1941–2025)}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Sir Kenneth Calman | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB|DL|FRCP|FRCS|FRCSGlas|FRSE|FRCGP}} | image_size = | image = Kenneth_Calman.jpg | caption = Calman in 2019 | order = | office = Chancellor of the University of Glasgow | term_start = 23 January 2006 | term_end = 15 June 2020 | predecessor = Sir William Kerr Fraser | successor = Dame Katherine Grainger | office2 = Warden and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham | term_start2 = 1998 | term_end2 = 2006 | predecessor2 = Evelyn Ebsworth | successor2 = Chris Higgins | office3 = Chief Medical Officer for Her Majesty's Government | term_start3 = 1 January 1991 | term_end3 = 31 December 1997 | predecessor3 = Sir Donald Acheson | successor3 = Sir Liam Donaldson | office4 = Chief Medical Officer for Scotland | term_start4 = 1989 | term_end4 = 1991 | predecessor4 = Iain Macdonald | successor4 = Robert Evan Kendell | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1941|12|25}} | birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2025|7|21|1941|12|25}} | death_place = Glasgow, Scotland | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | birth_name = | spouse = {{marriage|Ann Wilkie|1967}} | children = 3, including Susan | alma_mater = University of Glasgow | occupation = | profession = Physician, surgeon, author | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Sir Kenneth Charles Calman''' (25 December 1941 – 21 July 2025) was a Scottish doctor and academic who worked as a surgeon, oncologist and cancer researcher, and held the position of Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, and then England.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5467 |title=A former chief medical officer: Interview with Kenneth Calman |last=Chapman |first=Kate |date=2 September 2011 |journal=The BMJ |issue=343 |doi=10.1136/bmj.d5467 |s2cid=80057792 |access-date=11 January 2019|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He was Warden and Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 1998 to 2006 before becoming Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He held the position of Chair of the National Cancer Research Institute from 2008 until 2011. From 2008 to 2009, he was convener of the Calman Commission on Scottish devolution.
==Early life== Kenneth Calman was born on 25 December 1941 to Grace Douglas Don and Arthur McIntosh Calman.<ref name="whoswho">{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U9920 |chapter=Calman, Sir Kenneth (Charles) |date=December 2008 |title=Who's Who |publisher=A&C Black |access-date=4 November 2016|title-link=Who's Who (UK) }}</ref> He was educated at Allan Glen's School<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allanglens.com/index.php/the-past/former-pupils |title=Former Pupils |website=Allan Glen's School |access-date=23 July 2025 |archive-date=20 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250420040457/http://www.allanglens.com/index.php/the-past/former-pupils |url-status=live}}</ref> and the University of Glasgow. He began medical training and graduated with an intercalated BSc degree in biochemistry in 1964 while studying for his MB ChB, the general medical degree that he completed in 1967.<ref name="Herald 1974">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zZRAAAAAIBAJ&pg=3105%2C6138108 |title=Professor to lead research into cancer |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=28 August 1974 |page=6 |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref> He undertook a PhD in dermatology and also received an MD with Honours in organ preservation.<ref name="universitystory">{{cite web|title=Biography of Sir Kenneth Calman|url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2033&type=P|website=University of Glasgow|access-date=25 June 2009|archive-date=16 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716024631/http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2033&type=P|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Career== Calman became Hall Fellow and lecturer in surgery at the University of Glasgow in 1969, and between 1972 and 1974, was a clinical research fellow at the Chester Beatty Research Institute in London, funded by the Medical Research Council.<ref name="nhshistory">{{cite web |title=Sir Kenneth Calman, FRSE, PhD, BSc, FRCP, FRCS(Ed), FRCGP |url=http://www.nhshistory.net/cvcalman.htm|work=www.nhshistory.net |first=Geoffrey |last=Rivett |access-date=25 June 2009}}</ref>
In 1974, Calman was appointed to the new chair of clinical oncology at the University of Glasgow at the age of 32 years.<ref>{{cite journal |title=News and notes. Medical news |journal=British Medical Journal |volume=3 |issue=5931 |page=636 |doi=10.1136/bmj.3.5931.636 |date=7 September 1974}}</ref> He became dean of postgraduate medicine at the University of Glasgow in 1984.<ref name="universitystory" />
Calman was appointed chief medical officer for Scotland, at the Scottish Office in 1989. He was then appointed chief medical officer for England in 1991, by the United Kingdom government, at the Department of Health in 1991.<ref>{{cite journal |title=New CMO |first=Tony |last=Delamothe |journal=BMJ |volume=302 |issue=6784 |page=1040 |date=4 May 1991 |doi=10.1136/bmj.302.6784.1039}}</ref> He was in post until 1998, a period that included the BSE crisis.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Health Profile: Challenging doctors: an interview with England's chief medical officer |first=R |last=Smith |journal=BMJ |volume=308 |issue=6938 |pages=1221–1224 |date=7 May 1994 |doi=10.1136/bmj.308.6938.1221 |pmid=8180543 |pmc=2540056 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/371891.stm |title=Kenneth Calman: The cautious doctor |work=BBC News |date=11 October 2000 |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Witnessing history: a personal view of half a century in public health |journal=Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh |year=2018 |volume=48 |issue=2 |pages=181–191 |first1=B P |last1=Bergman |first2=F |last2=Laing |first3=A S |last3=Chandler |first4=K C |last4=Calman |doi=10.4997/JRCPE.2018.214 |pmid=29992211 }}</ref>
He was the UK representative at the World Health Organization and chaired its executive committee in 1988–1989.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Bruntland makes waves in her first six months at the WHO |first=Karen |last=Birmingham |journal=Nature Medicine |volume=5 |page=249 |year=1999 |issue=3 |doi=10.1038/6435 |pmid=10086364 }}</ref>
In 1998, he was appointed vice-chancellor and warden of Durham University. His time as vice-chancellor saw the expansion and integration of the campus at Stockton-on-Tees, with two colleges being established there in 2001 and the campus being renamed ''Queen's Campus'' during the 2002 Golden Jubilee celebrations. A new college was also opened in 2006, Josephine Butler College.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2025/07/tributes-for-former-vice-chancellor-sir-kenneth-calman/ |title=Tributes for former Vice-Chancellor, Sir Kenneth Calman |publisher=Durham University |date=23 July 2025 |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref> There was also a return to the teaching of medicine at Durham, with students doing their pre-clinical studies at Queen's Campus before transferring to Newcastle to complete the clinical part of their degrees. His time as vice-chancellor also saw the closure of the Department of Applied Linguistics in 2003 and Department of East Asian Studies in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/nov/07/administration.highereducation |title=Durham's reputation suffers following east Asian course closure |first=Polly |last=Curtis |work=The Guardian |date=7 November 2003 |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref> Professor Calman retired as Warden in 2007 and was succeeded by Professor Christopher Higgins.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/jul/05/careers.highereducation |title=Medical scientist to be next Durham vice-chancellor |first=Chris |last=Johnston |work=The Guardian |date=5 July 2006 |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=22 March 2007 |title=Vice-Chancellor retires from Durham University |url=http://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=5277 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112100026/https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=5277 |archive-date=12 January 2019 |website=Durham University}}</ref>
Calman was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2000 to 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nuffieldbioethics.org/about/council-members/council-members/ |title=Past Council Members |website=Nuffield Council on Bioethics |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713170103/https://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/about/council-members/council-members/ |archive-date=13 July 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He chaired its inquiry on the ''Ethics of research related to healthcare in developing countries''<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://nuffieldbioethics.org/news/2002/expert-group-launches-report-on-the-ethics-of/ |title=Expert group launches report on the ethics of research related to healthcare in developing countries |website=Nuffield Council on Bioethics |date=24 April 2002 |access-date=31 May 2015}}</ref> from 2000 to 2002, and was a member of the Working Party on ''Public health''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nuffieldbioethics.org/project/public-health/working-party/ |title=Previous work: Public Health: about the working party |website=Nuffield Council on Bioethics |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113003850/http://nuffieldbioethics.org/project/public-health/working-party |archive-date=13 January 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> from 2006 to 2007. In 2004, he was appointed to the Scottish Science Advisory Council (SSAC).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scottishscience.org.uk/members/ssac-past-members |title=SSAC past members |publisher=Scottish Science Advisory Council |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref>
On 23 January 2006, it was announced that Calman had been elected Chancellor of the University of Glasgow by the General Council of the university, taking around 60 per cent of the vote<ref>{{cite web |title=University of Glasgow appoints new Chancellor |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2006/january/headline_28808_en.html |publisher=University of Glasgow |date=23 January 2006 |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref> against opponent Professor Sir Neil MacCormick, a former MEP, jurist and son of John MacCormick, former Rector of the university. In 2007, he gave the Stanley Nisbet Lecture on "The Role of the University in the 21st Century".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/last-gasp-book-learning |title=Last gasp for book-learning |first=Walter |last=Humes |work=TES |date=22 June 2007 |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref> He was Chancellor for fourteen years and retired in June 2020 at the age of 78.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/newsarchive/2020/19june2020/headline_727353_en.html |title=Professor Sir Kenneth Calman bows out as Chancellor |publisher=University of Glasgow |date=18 June 2020 |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref>
In 1980, he set up a charity, ''Tak Tent'', which is derived from a Scots phrase meaning "Take Care";<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XNdAAAAAIBAJ&pg=5010%2C72714 |title=The Courage Club. Its fighting talk in the battle to beat cancer |first=Barbara |last=MacMahon |work=The Evening Times |date=1 February 1983 |page=12 |access-date=28 July 2025}}</ref> it would later be known as "Cancer Support Scotland".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23366189.cancer-charity-founder-sir-kenneth-calman-reflects-50-year-journey/ |title=Cancer charity founder Sir Kenneth Calman reflects on 50 year journey |first=Deborah |last=Anderson |work=The Herald |date=10 March 2023 |access-date=28 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC012867 |title=Cancer Support Scotland (Tak Tent) (subject to insolvency proceedings). SC012867. Registered charity from 19 December 1984 |access-date=28 July 2025}}</ref> Calman was chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Trust for Scotland from 2010 to 2015.<ref name="whoswho" /><ref name="Scotsman NTS 2010">{{cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/sir-kenneth-calman-to-take-over-as-head-of-national-trust-for-scotland-1712119 |title=Sir Kenneth Calman to take over as head of National Trust for Scotland |date=19 July 2010 |work=The Scotsman |access-date=24 July 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-29704361 |title=The National Trust for Scotland looks for a new chairman |date=21 October 2014 |website=BBC News |access-date=4 November 2016}}</ref> On leaving that position, he was gifted a sundial which was installed at Brodick Castle.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-arran-banner/20150919/281483570172849 |title=Sir Kenneth unveils retiral sundial |work=The Arran Banner |date=19 September 2015 |via=PressReader |access-date=2 December 2025}}</ref> On 1 October 2016, he took up the position of chair of the Board of National Library of Scotland.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nls.uk/news/press/2016/07/new-chair-appointed |title=Sir Kenneth Calman joins National Library as Board Chair |date=27 July 2016 |website=National Library of Scotland |access-date=4 November 2016 |archive-date=5 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105160813/http://www.nls.uk/news/press/2016/07/new-chair-appointed |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He was involved with writing and editing multiple works, with more than 15 books published, mainly on medical topics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://viaf.org/en/viaf/16140612 |title=Calman, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Charles) |publisher=Virtual International Authority File |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref> He had many papers published on medicine, health and science. His first book was published in 1971, a pocketbook for doctors called ''Basic Skills for Surgical Housemen''.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Basic Skills for Surgical Housemen. By Kenneth C Calman, Lecturer in Surgery, Western Infirmary, Glasgow. 7⅕ × 4⅘; in. Pp. 126 + vii. Illustrated. 1971. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. £1.|journal=British Journal of Surgery |volume=59 |issue=6 |date=1 June 1972 |page=500 |doi=10.1002/bjs.1800590641}}</ref> In 1978, with John Paul, he wrote ''An Introduction to Cancer Medicine'', which was aimed at undergraduates.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Book Review. An Introduction to Cancer Medicine |first1=D |last1=Crowther |journal=British Journal of Cancer |volume=39 |page=348 |date=1 March 1979 |doi=10.1038/bjc.1979.66 |pmc=2009865 }}</ref> A collection of his essays, ''The Potential for Health'', was published in 1998.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Various |title=Book reviews |journal=Journal of Public Health Medicine |volume=21 |issue=1 |date=1 March 1999 |pages=109–114 |doi=10.1093/pubmed/21.1.109}}</ref>{{rp|112–113}} ''A Study of Story Telling, Humour and Learning in Medicine: H M Queen Mother Fellowship, Eighth Lecture'' was published in 2001.<ref>{{cite journal |title=A Study of Story Telling, Humour and Learning in Medicine: H M Queen Mother Fellowship, Eighth Lecture |first=Trisha |last=Greenhalgh |author-link=Trisha Greenhalgh |journal=BMJ |issue=322 |page=1252 |doi=10.1136/bmj.322.7296.1252 |date=19 May 2001}}</ref> His memoir ''It Started in a Cupboard'' was published in 2019.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/18074831.review-started-cupboard-kenneth-calman/ |title=Review: It Started in a Cupboard by Kenneth Calman |first=Rosemary |last=Goring |date=8 December 2019 |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref>
===Calman Commission=== {{Main|Commission on Scottish Devolution}}
Calman was the chair of a commission established by the Scottish Parliament in March 2008 to review Scottish devolution, commonly referred to as the ''Calman Commission''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7311840.stm |title=Devolution review body launched |website=BBC News |date=25 March 2008 |access-date=2 July 2014}}</ref> Other Commission members include former Lord Advocate Colin Boyd, former Deputy First Minister Jim Wallace, and Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Glasgow. The Commission published its first interim report in December 2008,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/02_12_08_calman.pdf |title=The Future of Scottish Devolution within the Union: A First Report |website=Commission on Scottish Devolution |via=BBC News |date=2 December 2008}}</ref> and published its final report on 15 June 2009.<ref>{{cite web |title=Commission on Scottish Devolution |url=http://www.commissiononscottishdevolution.org.uk/ |website=www.commissiononscottishdevolution.org.uk |access-date=27 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102131132/http://www.commissiononscottishdevolution.org.uk/ |archive-date=2 January 2015 |location=web.archive.org |date=15 June 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Commission recommended, among other things, that the Scottish Parliament receive greater tax-raising powers as well as control over the regulation of airguns, the administration of elections, drink-driving limits and the national speed limit.
In 2014, he took on the role of honorary president of the Friends of Glasgow University Library.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/archives/2014/october/headline_363883_en.html |title=Library Friends' new Honorary President |publisher=University of Glasgow |date=8 October 2014 |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref> He chaired the Glasgow City of Science 2010–2015 and then continued as honorary president.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/chamber-chief-named-new-glasgow-city-of-science-chair/ |title=Chamber chief named new Glasgow City of Science chair |publisher=Glasgow City of Science and Innovation |date=18 June 2015 |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/glasgow-mourns-the-loss-of-sir-kenneth-calman/ |title=Honorary President of Glasgow City of Science and Innovation |publisher=Glasgow City of Science and Innovation |date=25 July 2025 |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref>
==Personal life and death== Calman was President of the Boys' Brigade from 2008 until 2011,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://boys-brigade.org.uk/professor-sir-kenneth-calman-kcb/ |title=Professor Sir Kenneth Calman KCB |publisher=Boys' Brigade |date=24 July 2025 |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref> and addressed his first council meeting as president at Tulliallan Castle in September 2008.<ref name="Scotsman NTS 2010" />
He liked to write poetry. In 2013, he graduated with a Master of Letters degree from the University of Glasgow with a thesis on Scottish literature and medicine.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13111446.university-chancellor-now-masters-new-roll/ |title=University chancellor now masters a new roll |work=The Herald |date=28 June 2013 |access-date=25 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3967/ |title=Enlighten Theses > Calman, Kenneth Charles (2012) Makars and mediciners: A study of the link between Scottish literature, medicine and health. MLitt(R) thesis, University of Glasgow. |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref> This was subsequently published as a book, ''A Doctor's Line'', in 2014.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/13177467.kenneth-c-calman-doctors-line-sandstone/ |title=Kenneth C Calman: A Doctor's Line (Sandstone) |work=The Herald |date=30 August 2014 |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref>
Calman married Ann Wilkie in 1967,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scotsman/20190821/281844350286429 |title=How early trauma spurred Sir Kenneth to a life in medicine |work=The Scotsman |date=21 August 2019 |access-date=24 July 2025 |via=PressReader}}</ref> and had a son and two daughters, one of whom is the comedian Susan Calman<ref>{{cite news |first=Gillian |last=Bowditch |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/comedy/article6727493.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615051801/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/comedy/article6727493.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 June 2011 |title=Susan Calman: the lawyer who became our pint-sized new comic pin-up |newspaper=The Times |date=26 July 2009 |access-date=18 April 2011}}</ref> and one of whom is Professor Lynn Calman.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scotsman/20190821/281844350286429 |title=Professor Lynn Calman |work=Southampton University |date=23 August 2025 |access-date=23 August 2025 |via=PressReader}}</ref> He enjoyed collecting cartoons and sundials.
Calman died from a short illness on 21 July 2025, at the age of 83, at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow.<ref name="RCPSG tribute">{{cite web |url=https://rcpsg.ac.uk/news/tributes-paid-to-Sir-Kenneth-Calman-202507 |title=Tributes paid to Sir Kenneth Calman, 1941–2025|publisher=Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow |date=24 July 2025 |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Kenneth Calman obituary: former chief medical officer for Scotland |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/kenneth-calman-obituary-death-sjj8tt5k6 |access-date=25 July 2025 |work=The Times |date=25 July 2025 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> ==Honours and awards== Calman received honorary degrees from the universities of Glasgow,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_61834_smxx.pdf |title=Who, Where and When: The History & Constitution of the University of Glasgow |publisher=University of Glasgow |date=2001 |isbn=0-85261-734-8 |pages=204}}</ref> Aberdeen,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/students/graduation/gallery/honorary-graduates/#panel103764 |title=Honorary graduates| publisher=University of Aberdeen |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref> Nottingham,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/registrar/documents/hon-deg-list-nov2021.pdf |title=Honorary Graduates of the University of Nottingham |publisher=University of Nottingham |date=November 2021 |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref> Newcastle,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ncl.ac.uk/mediav8/congregations/files/Hon%20Degrees%20Awarded%20with%20Themes%20Dec%202024.pdf |title=Honorary graduates| publisher=Newcastle University |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref> Birmingham,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/honorary-degrees/99802.article |title=Honorary degrees |work=Times Higher Education |date=19 July 1996 |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref> Stirling,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stir.ac.uk/events/graduation/honorary-graduates/ |title=Honorary graduates| publisher=University of Stirling |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref> Paisley,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uws.ac.uk/media/5332/university-of-paisley-honorary-awards-1993-2007.pdf |title=Honorary doctors of the University of Paisley |page=2 |publisher=University of the West of Scotland |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref> Westminster<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/honorary-awards/honorary-awards-1992-2009 |title=Honorary awards 1992-2009 |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref> and Brighton,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brighton.ac.uk/alumni/our-alumni/honorary-graduates/index.aspx|title=Our alumni > Honorary graduates |publisher=University of Brighton |access-date=25 July 2025}}</ref> the Open University<ref>{{cite web |url=https://university.open.ac.uk/students/ceremonies/sites/www.open.ac.uk.students.ceremonies/files/Honorary%20graduate%20cumulative%20list(1).pdf |title=Honorary graduate cumulative list |publisher=Open University |page=4 |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref> and Glasgow Caledonian University.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/honorary-degrees/92625.article |title=Honorary degrees |work=Times Higher Education |date=16 February 1996 |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref>
He gained Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1971.<ref name="Herald 1974" /> He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in their clinical sciences discipline in 1979.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://rse.org.uk/fellowship/fellow/sir-kenneth-calman-28179/ |title=Fellowship > Sir Kenneth Calman |publisher=Royal Society of Edinburgh |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref> He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rcp.ac.uk/membership/fellowship/register-of-fellows/?name=Kenneth+Calman |title=Register of Fellows |publisher=Royal College of Physicians |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref> He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1996 New Year Honours.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12054564.leading-scots-knighted |title=Leading Scots knighted |work=The Herald |date=29 December 1995 |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref>
He received many honorary fellowships. In 1997 he received Fellowship ''ad eundem'' from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rcog.org.uk/membership/fellows-and-members/fellowship-ad-eundem-and-honoris-causa/ |title=Fellows and Members > Fellowship ad eundem and honoris causa |publisher=Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists |access-date=25 July 2025}}</ref> and an honorary fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rcsi.com/dublin/library/collections/heritage-collections/honorary-fellows |title=Honorary Fellows |publisher=Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland |access-date=26 July 2025}}</ref> He was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/fellow/Sir-Kenneth-Calman-0005495 |title=Fellows > Sir Kenneth Calman FRSE FMedSci |publisher=Academy of Medical Sciences |access-date=25 July 2025}}</ref> He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2005.<ref name="RCPSG tribute" /> He gave the Royal College of General Practitioners' William Pickles lecture in 2000.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The William Pickles Lecture. Issues of risk: 'this unique opportunity'. |first=K C |last=Calman |journal=British Journal of General Practice |date=January 2001 |volume=51 |issue=462 |pages=47–51 |url=https://bjgp.org/content/51/462/47}}</ref> He was an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.medicaleducators.org/Our-Honorary-Fellows |title=Honorary Fellows of the Academy of Medical Educators |publisher=Academy of Medical Educators (AoME) |access-date=18 April 2022}}</ref> Since 2009, the Academy of Medical Educators has held a lecture named for him.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://medicaleducators.org/Calman-Lecture-Presidents-Evening |title=Calman Lecture & President's Evening |publisher=Academy of Medical Educators |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref> In 2009, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant in the City of Glasgow.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/12847322.top-two-honoured-by-city/ |title=Top two honoured by city |work=The Evening Times |date=4 November 2009|access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/E-26695-1 |title=Deputy Lieutenant Commissions |work=The Edinburgh Gazette |date=13 October 2009 |issue=26695 |page=4701 |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref>
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