41 Facts About Bob Tizard

Robert James Tizard was a Labour politician from New Zealand.

Bob Tizard served as the sixth deputy prime minister, the minister of Finance, minister of Health and minister of Defence.

Bob Tizard was educated at Meadowbank School and Auckland Grammar School, and earned a university scholarship in 1940.

Bob Tizard was involved in student politics and unionism and was president of the Auckland University Students' Association in 1948.

Bob Tizard made his first foray into national politics when he unsuccessfully ran for the Remuera electorate at the 1951 general election and again at the 1954 general election.

Bob Tizard was finally successful at the 1957 election, winning in the electorate of Tamaki.

Bob Tizard was the Member of Parliament for Tamaki for the next three years.

Bob Tizard found the file and took it to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Bill Anderton and he signed the necessary approval.

Bob Tizard returned to parliament in a 1963 by-election in the Otahuhu electorate, but in the 1963 general election was elected MP for Pakuranga.

Bob Tizard was Shadow Minister of Finance under leader Norman Kirk.

Contrary to expectation, Bob Tizard was instead appointed as Minister of Health and Minister of State Services when the Third Labour Government was elected in 1972.

Bob Tizard was unhappy when informed of the decision but vowed he would put his all in to the job he was given.

At his retirement in 1990 Bob Tizard said he was still then complimented on his work in the health portfolio.

Bob Tizard was elected in an exhaustive caucus ballot, in the final iteration he defeated the Minister of Defence Arthur Faulkner 28 votes to 26.

Bob Tizard did not take the defeat graciously, repeatedly referring in the caucus meeting to colleagues who voted against him as 'bastards'.

Bob Tizard even went as far as to tell Lange "I will never vote for you while your arsehole points to the ground".

In 1983 when Lange became leader Bob Tizard was dropped from the finance portfolio and made Shadow Minister of Energy instead.

Bob Tizard turned his attention instead to safeguarding his portfolios from the privatisation agenda of finance minister Roger Douglas and his backers, fighting against energy corporatisation wherever he could.

Bob Tizard was confronted with nearly all of the country's energy resources having been committed to the Think Big policies of the previous government which hampered his plans to convert New Zealand vehicles to alternative fuels.

Bob Tizard suspended use of the controversial National Development Act and assisted with being rescinded with the National Development Act Repeal Act.

Bob Tizard retracted his previous grudge against Lange and supported him when Douglas challenged for the leadership.

Bob Tizard garnered public attention when he walked out of a live television interview with journalist Lindsay Perigo after Perigo persistently asked, despite warnings from Bob Tizard, questions outside the intended topic of the interview.

Bob Tizard briefly returned to the picture after realising he was still wearing the stage microphone.

When Lange's replacement as Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer held a complete reelection of cabinet in early 1990 Bob Tizard was dropped from the cabinet due to his impending retirement.

Angry with the outcome Bob Tizard threatened to resign and force a by-election unless he could come to an agreement with the government over a car and housing arrangements for himself and his wife.

Bob Tizard was a member of the Auckland Regional Council and resigned after entering parliament.

Bob Tizard stood as the Labour candidate to fill the vacancy on the ARC.

In 2007 Bob Tizard announced his candidacy for the Auckland District Health Board.

Bob Tizard was elected to the board, at the age of 83.

In 2009, at the age of 85, Bob Tizard was asked to speak, as a historian, on aspects of World War II at a dinner held to honour Captain Jack Lyon, a New Zealand war hero and former Labour Party Member of Parliament.

Bob Tizard died in Auckland on 28 January 2016, aged 91.

Bob Tizard was appointed a member of Her Majesty's Privy Council in 1985.

Bob Tizard then returned to university to complete her degree in zoology, and later began teaching at Auckland University before the couple divorced in 1980.

Bob Tizard is the father of former Consumer Affairs minister Judith Tizard, who succeeded her father as the Member of Parliament for Panmure in 1990.

Bob Tizard later met Mary Nacey, with whom he had a son, Joe, in 1982.

Bob Tizard then married Beryl Vignale of Canada in 1989.

Bob Tizard received ten replies, eight giving information on her whereabouts and two saying 'If you find her please tell me where she is'.

Bob Tizard was interested in sport, particularly cricket, squash and golf.

Bob Tizard was a member and administrator of the Auckland University Cricket Club.

Bob Tizard was a captain at the Remuera Golf Club and represented it in several inter-club competitions.

Bob Tizard possessed an extensive stamp collection which in 1990 was valued at $500,000.