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5 unusual facts about Joseph Stone


Joseph Stone

Joseph Stone, Baron Stone (1903–1986), Officer in the British Army, doctor, and royal peer

Joseph Stone, Baron Stone

Joe Stone was a General Practitioner, originally from Llanelli in Wales, who after qualifying in Cardiff worked as a GP in and around Hendon.

As a peacetime GP, his patients included Lord Longford and Harold Wilson, and when Wilson became Prime Minister, Stone went on to become the personal physician to the Prime Minister.

He took on a number of patients from Hampstead Garden Suburb, at the time an area popular with left wing politicians, one of whom, Harold Wilson went on to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Joseph Ellis Stone, Baron Stone (27 May 1903 – 17 June 1986) was an officer in the British Army, and a doctor, most notably to Harold Wilson.



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