David Paton (born 29 October 1949) is a Scottish bass and guitar player, most notably with three different bands: Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project and Camel. He has also worked as a solo artist, session musician, and sometime vocalist. He wrote and sang on Pilot's two big hits: "January" and "Magic".
Paton was also a member of an early version of the Bay City Rollers.
Paton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and grew up in the south-eastern suburb of Gilmerton, where he attended Liberton High School.
In the 1980s, Paton was known for his work with Elton John in studio albums and touring around the world. Other credits include bass guitar and backing vocals for several records by Fish, and several albums by Rick Wakeman in the 1990s. In 1984, he was a member of Keats.
His first solo album was released in 1991, titled Passions Cry, and second album No Ties No Strings was released in 2003. No Ties No Strings was a re-recording of his never released album from 1980.
Paton also appeared solo in the Countdown Spectacular 2 concert series in Australia, between August and September 2007, as a performer and musical director.
David Paton may refer to:
Lieutenant-Colonel David Paton (1912–2008) was medical officer and the last surviving member of the St Nazaire raid of World War II, sometimes called “The Greatest Raid of All.”
David Paton was born at Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 30 July 1912 and was educated at the Hamilton Academy, a prestigious Scottish school that featured in the Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association 1950 magazine article series ‘Famous Scottish Schools.’ From Hamilton Academy Paton entered the University of Glasgow reading Medicine; at university joining the Officer Training Corps.
On graduation Paton worked at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, before being called up to the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1939. After serving at the War Office and several army camps in southern England, he was appointed medical officer to the garrison at Catterick, Yorkshire, England, and just prior to Christmas 1941 was transferred to the Orkney Isles and from there to Ayr where he was seconded to the Commandos.
David Paton was a Scottish artist active between 1660–1700.
He is known for his high quality Portrait miniatures and is considered one of the best draughtsmen in late seventeenth-century Britain. He worked mainly in plumbago, pencil and sepia, but also painted portraits in oil.
His earliest known works are copies of oils formerly in the collection of Charles I by Giovanni Cariani and Titian dating from 1667. Paton also copied works of older contemporary Samuel Cooper including the famous 1665 large rectangular miniature of Charles II. One copy, signed and dated 1668, is at Ham House, the other, a year later, is in the collection of the duke of Buccleuch.
A copy by Paton after the miniature of William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart, attributed to David des Granges, is also at Ham House as are both the original and Paton's copy of John Hoskins' large rectangular limning of Murray's wife; Katherine Bruce, dated 1638.
Paton is known to have been in Italy in the 1670s and 1680s with The Hon. William Tollemache (1662–1694), the youngest son of his patron, Murray's daughter; Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale, on his Grand Tour. Paton's self-portrait, a miniature dated 1683, is held in the collection of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
David Paton, MD (born August 16, 1930) is a retired full-time ophthalmologist best known as Founder in 1970 of Project Orbis (now named Orbis International, Inc.) and thereafter as its first Medical Director helping to develop (1970–1982) and then deploy its teaching aircraft for ophthalmologists worldwide, especially in the developing nations. The initial aircraft was a donated DC-8 refurbished to contain an operating room, a teaching classroom and the necessary ancillary components for sharing “live” both surgical and medical techniques with colleagues abroad who were eager to learn by means of hands-on instruction. The instruction was provided by volunteer American and other skilled medical teachers from an eventually large number of countries. In 1988, the DC-8 was replaced by a larger and more complete teaching aircraft complex, housed in a formerly commercial DC-10. Thus far 88 countries have been visited, some repeatedly. By 2012, still another update of the Orbis aircraft will be prepared to further fulfill the various purposes of teaching optimal eye care internationally, principally by means of doctor-to-doctor techniques. Paton resigned from Orbis in 1987 and focused on other aspects of academic ophthalmology, but in 2011 he returned in a voluntary capacity to assist in fund raising for a new annual appointment, the David Paton Orbis Fellowship in Global Ophthalmology
David Paton (1801 – 1882) was a Scottish architect and builder, who temporarily worked in the United States in the 1830s and was important in his role of supervising the completion of the North Carolina State Capitol. He returned to the United States in 1849 to teach architecture and remained for the rest of his life.
He was born in Edinburgh the third child of twelve to John Paton, builder and Elenor Roper Paton. His father was the builder of much of Edinburgh’s Second New Town. He attended Edinburgh University before training as an architect and builder. In 1825 he appears to have travelled to Paris in France as several of his drawings from this period survive.
On 23 January 1829 he married Mary Nichol in Edinburgh. They had one daughter, Eleanor Murray Paton (1830-1902). However the marriage was short-lived as his wife died early in 1833.
In November 1829 he went to London where he worked in the offices of Sir John Soane for six months. When he returned his family lived at his father’s huge house within the central north “palace-block” pavilion, at 66 Great King Street, in Edinburgh’s Second New Town. This house was built by his father, who had constructed most of Great King Street, and this huge house was partly in lieu of payment.
David (Bulgarian: Давид) (died 976) was a Bulgarian noble, brother of Emperor Samuel and eldest son of komes Nicholas. After the disastrous invasion of Rus' armies and the fall of North-eastern Bulgaria under Byzantine occupation in 971, he and his three younger brothers took the lead of the defence of the country. They executed their power together and each of them governed and defended a separate region. He ruled the southern-most parts of the realm from Prespa and Kastoria and was responsible for the defence the dangerous borders with Thessalonica and Thessaly. In 976 he participated in the major assault against the Byzantine Empire but was killed by vagrant Vlachs between Prespa and Kostur.
However, there's also another version about David’s origin. David gains the title "comes" during his service in the Byzantine army which recruited many Armenians from the Eastern region of the empire. The 11th-century historian Stepanos Asoghik wrote that Samuel had one brother, and they were Armenians from the district Derjan. This version is supported by the historians Nicholas Adontz, Jordan Ivanov, and Samuil's Inscription where it’s said that Samuel’s brother is David. Also, the historians Yahya and Al Makin clearly distinguish the race of Samuel and David (the Comitopouli) from the one of Moses and Aaron (the royal race):