Donald Acheson [SEP] date of death
Donald Acheson
Sir (Ernest) Donald Acheson (17 September 1926 – 10 January 2010) was an Irish-born physician and epidemiologist who served as Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1991. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Early life.
His father Captain Malcolm King Acheson, MC, MD was a doctor who specialised in public health, and his mother Dorothy Josephine "née" Rennoldson was the daughter of a Tyneside ship builder. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School,
after independence. He received the Austrian Bruno Kreisky Prize for Services to Human Rights. As a SWAPO activist he was detained six times by the South African authorities. In 1989 he became Deputy Secretary for Finance and Administration in the SWAPO Election Directorate. Shortly before his death he became a member of the SWAPO Central Committee. He was murdered in front of his home in Windhoek, presumably by a South African hit squad (probably by an Irish mercenary, Donald Acheson - not to be confused with Sir Donald Acheson KBE) during