Farquhar Buzzard
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Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Bt. (20 December 1871 - 17 December 1945) was a prominent British physician and Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford (1928-1943).
He was the son of Thomas Buzzard and his wife Isabel Wass. He married May Bliss on 21 March 1899 and had 5 children.
During his eminent career he was Consultant Physician at St. Thomas' Hospital, London, Goulstonian Lecturer in 1907 at the Royal College of Physicians, London, a physician at the Belgrave Hospital for Children, the National Hospital for Paralysed and Epileptic, the Royal Free Hospital, London, a Fellow of Royal College of Physicians, Lettsomian Lecturer in 1926 at the Medical Society, London, and President of the British Medical Association between 1936 and 1937.[1]
He gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in the service of the Royal Army Medical Corps. and was made a Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order (K.C.V.O.) in 1927. Two years later he was created 1st Baronet Buzzard, of Munstead Grange in the Parish of Godalming, Surrey. He was Physician-in-Ordinary to King George V of the United Kingdom between 1932 and 1936, and to Edward VIII in 1936. He was made Extra Physician to George VI of the United Kingdom in 1937.
He was succeeded by his only son, Rear-Admiral Sir Anthony Wass Buzzard, 2nd Bt.
- ^ Charles Mosley, ed. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware, 2003) vol. 1 p. 627
[edit] 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-10: 0950441406
