21 Facts About Peter Tizard

Sir John Peter Mills Tizard was a British paediatrician and professor at the University of Oxford.

Peter Tizard was considered the most distinguished academic children's physician of his generation.

Peter Tizard was the eldest of three sons of Sir Henry Peter Tizard KCB, who was the chief scientific adviser to the government at the outbreak of the World War II.

Indeed, Sir Henry Peter Tizard was the man who many believed was responsible for establishing the radar network that saved Great Britain during the Battle of Britain.

Peter Tizard was educated at Rugby School and Oriel College, Oxford.

Peter Tizard had married Joy Taylor in 1945; they had two sons and a daughter.

Peter Tizard later worked as medical specialist in France, Holland and Germany.

In 1949, unable to secure the position of Consultant at Great Ormond, Peter Tizard was promoted to Consultant, and trained as a paediatrician, while working with Reginald Lightwood at St Mary's Hospital, London and Paddington Green Children's Hospital.

Between 1970 and 1971, Peter Tizard was President of the European Paediatric Research Society.

From 1972 to 1983, Peter Tizard was an honorary Consultant Children's Physician at the Oxfordshire Health Authority.

Between 1975 and 1978, Peter Tizard was President of the Neonatal Society.

In 1982 Peter Tizard was recognised by the country and Knighted and became a Knight Bachelor.

From 1982 to 1985, Peter Tizard was President of the British Paediatric Association.

At Hammersmith Hospital, Peter Tizard worked to build up an academic neonatal unit that was a pioneer in the establishment of neonatal care in the UK, and established the scientific basis for the development of such units.

Peter Tizard recruited a number of brilliant, and now well known individuals.

Albert Claneaux, who was Dawkings predecessor at the Institute, had collaborated with Peter Tizard, and gave the first definitive account of the epidemiology of Intraventricular haemorrhage in newborn infants.

Peter Tizard did more than anybody else in the paediatric medical community to put paediatrics on an equal footing with medicine for adults, that was based on knowledge, as opposed to acquired experience, as Peter Tizard's group at Hammersmith Hospital had sufficient intellectual stamina to acquire that knowledge through research.

Therefore, it was a disappointment when the British Paediatric Association asserted its independence, by establishing paediatrics as a speciality, and breaking away from the Royal College of Physicians, rather than the hard won position that Peter Tizard's group had won for it, within general medicine.

On first meeting, Peter Tizard was often considered brutally frank and forthright in conversation, but was generally supportive, and was at this best working with patients, whom he treated with respect and dignity.

Peter Tizard was considered a good companion, who could tell a good story.

Peter Tizard received many awards and honours throughout this lifetime, but he took particular pleasure in being:.