Richard Glazebrook

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Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB, KCVO FRS (1854–December 16, 1935) was a physicist born in Liverpool.

He was President of the Physical Society from 1903 to 1905. His work dealt primarily with aviation study but other branches of physics also interested him. He was the first president of the Institute of Physics after the Physical Society adopted this new name.

He was the first director of the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington from 1899 to 1919; under his directorship it grew from a few huts on a marshy plain to a national service. For his work there he was knighted in 1917. He was also made a Companion of the of the Bath in 1910, Knight Commander of the Bath in 1920 and a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1934.

He married Frances Gertrude Atkinson of Leeds in 1883; they had a son and three daughters. He died at Limpsfield, Surrey.