Sir John Charles Batten KCVO, FRCP (11 March 1924 – 2013) was a British physician, who served as physician to Queen Elizabeth II from 1974 to 1989.London Gazette, 31 March 1970 (issue 45070), p. 3645London Gazette, 17 December (issue 46436), p. 12887"Batten, Sir John (Charles)", Who Was Who (online edition), Oxford University Press, Nov 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
Batten was born in Wandsworth to Kathleen Gladys, née Charles, and Raymond Wallis Batten, the latter a business executive and justice of the peace. He was educated at Mill Hill School graduated in medicine from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School in 1946.
He undertook two-years National Service in Germany with the Royal Horse Guards, as a surgeon captain.
He was a consultant physician at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers from 1968 to 1989; and at King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst from 1969 to 1989.
He served as president of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust from 1986 to 2003; of the British Lung Foundation from 1987 to 1995; and of the Medical Protection Society from 1988 to 1997. He was life vice president of the RNLI from 2000; a member of the board of governors of the Brompton Hospital from 1966 to 1969; and a trustee of the D'Oyly Carte Trust, as had been one of his grandfathers.
A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 1987 New Year Honours.
He died on 7 October 2013.
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