Farquhar Buzzard

Who was Farquhar Buzzard?

Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Baronet KCVO, FRCP, was a prominent British physician and Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford.

Buzzard was the son of Thomas Lovell Buzzard and his wife Isabel Wass, one of 5 remarkable children. Educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford, 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 of London, and President of the British Medical Association between 1936 and 1937.

He gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in the service of the Royal Army Medical Corps and was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order 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 between 1932 and 1936, and to Edward VIII in 1936. He was made Extra Physician to George VI in 1937.