Farquhar Buzzard
Farquhar Buzzard | |
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Born | 20 December 1871 |
Died | 17 December 1945 |
Medical career | |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Baronet,
Career
Farquhar Buzzard was born on 20 December 1871, one of six children of the neurologist
He gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in the service of the
Buzzard married May, daughter of Edward Bliss, on 21 March 1899. They had two sons and three daughters, Margaret (Gardiner-Hill), Anthony, Sylvia, Teddy and Bella (Acworth). He died in December 1945, aged 73, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son,
Medical Advances at Oxford University
Following becoming Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University (1928), Buzzard represented the University on the General Medical Council, having previously represented the Royal College of Physicians. He became Chairman of the Faculty of Medicine, a Curator of the Bodleian Library and University Representative on Oxford City Council. He had plans to create a Medical School at Oxford. In 1929-30 Buzzard persuaded Lord Nuffield to purchase the Radcliffe Observatory for the Radcliffe Hospital, thereby doubling the size of the hospital site. Buzzard incubated a plan for an Institute of Medical Research at Oxford and founded the Nuffield Medical Benefaction and the Oxford Medical School was born.
References
- ^ ISSN 1476-4687.
- ISSN 0007-1447.
- ^ "Buzzard, Thomas". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 268.
- ^ "Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard | RCP Museum". history.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ Charles Mosley, ed. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware, 2003) vol. 1 p. 627
- ^ "No. 33280". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1927. p. 3608.
- ^ "No. 33516". The London Gazette. 12 July 1929. p. 4622.
Further reading
- Frank Honigsbaum, Buzzard, Sir (Edward) Farquhar, first baronet (1871–1945) In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
- Alexander Macdougall Cooke, Sir E. Farquhar Buzzard, Bt., K.C.V.O., D.M., F.R.C.P: An appreciation ISBN 0-9504414-0-6