Topic: Robert Winston

Winston speaking about his book at Borders Oxford

Prof. Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston FRCP FRCOG (born 15 July 1940) is a British medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and he is also a politician who sits on the Labour Party benches in the House of Lords and takes the government whip.

Winston was born in London to Laurence Winston and Ruth Winston-Fox and raised in the Jewish faith. His mother was Mayor of the former Borough of Southgate, now absorbed into the London Borough of Enfield in 1961. Winston's polymath father died as a result of medical negligence when Winston was nine years old, which was partly the inspiration for his eventual career choice.