John Batten

Sir John Charles Batten KCVO, FRCP (11 March 1924 – 2013) was a British physician, who served as physician to Queen Elizabeth II from 1974 to 1989. Batten was born in Wandsworth to Kathleen Gladys, née Charles, and Raymond Wallis Batten, the latter a business executive and justice of the peace. He was educated at Mill Hill School graduated in medicine from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School in 1946. He undertook two-year's National Service in Germany with the Royal Horse Guards, as a surgeon captain. He was a consultant physician at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers from 1968 to 1989; and at King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst from 1969 to 1989.