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General First nameEdward Miller (Teddy)
LastnameBuzzard
GenderMale
CountryEngland
Date of birth1909-03-13
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of death1976-03-09
Place of deathOxford, England


About

From the internet: Edward Buzzard was born at 76 Wimpole Street, London, the residence of his father Edward Farquhar Buzzard, F.R.C.P., later Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, Bart, regius professor of medicine at Oxford. His mother before marriage was May Bliss, daughter of Edward Bliss, of Edgbaston.

Buzzard, always known to his family and friends as Teddy, was, like his father, educated at Charterhouse School, Magdalen College, Oxford, and St Thomas’s Hospital, where he was house physician to Sir Henry Tidy and registrar to Sir Maurice Cassidy. He also worked at the Brompton Hospital. At the time of the Abyssinian crisis in 1935 his strong sense of duty made him join the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. In 1937 he married Sylvia Fordham, daughter of Dr J.W. Fordham of Leicester. They had three daughters and one son.

Teddy’s career was interrupted by service in the RNVR throughout the war from 1939 to 1945, in Africa and Ceylon, with the rank of surgeon lieutenant commander. After the war he was appointed a supernumerary registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary, and two years later was elected to the honorary staff.

His main life’s work was spent in the service of the Oxford hospitals, where he gave meticulous and sympathetic care to all patients, whether in hospital or private practice. He examined at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London, and for the Conjoint and Membership examinations of the College. He was appointed a lecturer in medicine at Oxford in 1957.

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Archive statistics Career1930 - 1933
Tournament wins1
Matches8
Match wins2


Tournament wins 1931 - Godalming (Amateur)


Tournaments Leicester - 1933 Cranleigh - 1933 Wimbledon - 1932 Wimbledon - 1931 Sidmouth - 1931 Godalming - 1931 Angmering-on-Sea - 1930