Farquhar Buzzard

Farquhar Buzzard

Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Baronet KCVO, FRCP (20 December 1871 - 17 December 1945), was a prominent British physician and Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford (1928-1943).

Buzzard was the son of Thomas Buzzard and his wife Isabel Wass. 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. [Charles Mosley, ed. "Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition" (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware, 2003) vol. 1 p. 627]

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 a Baronet, of Munstead Grange in the Parish of Godalming in the County of 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.

Buzzard married May, daughter of Edward Bliss, on 21 March 1899. They had one son and four daughters. He died in December 1945, aged 73, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only son, Anthony, who became a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy. Lady Buzzard died in 1951.

References

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


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