John Padel
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John Hunter Padel (1913-1999) was a British psychoanalyst and classicist.
He was born in Carlisle, where his father was headmaster of the grammar school. He was named after his ancestor, the surgeon John Hunter. He gained a scholarship to Queen's College, Oxford.
He married Hilda Horatio Barlow, daughter of Sir Alan Barlow and Nora Darwin, in 1944. She was a great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin. They had five children:
- Ruth Padel (born 1946), the poet
- Oliver James Padel (born 1948), mediaeval Cornish and Welsh historian
- Nicola Mary Padel (born 1951)
- Felix John Padel (born 1955)
- Adam Frederick Padel (born 1958), histopathologist
