Peter Tizard

Sir (John) Peter Mills Tizard (1 April 1916 – 27 October 1993) was a British paediatrician and professor at the University of Oxford.

Life

Tizard, the son of Sir Henry Tizard, was born in London on 1 April 1916 and educated at Rugby School and Oriel College, Oxford. He then qualified in medicine at Middlesex Hospital in 1941. After serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps, he trained as a paediatrician and was appointed consultant at Paddington Green Children's Hospital in 1949. He held a research fellowship at the Harvard Medical School (1951) and was appointed Professor of Paediatrics at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London (1964), heading the neonatal research unit. In 1972, he became the first Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford, which came with a fellowship of Jesus College, Oxford. He was knighted in 1982, and retired in 1983. He died on 27 October 1993.

He had married (Elizabeth) Joy Taylor in 1945; they had two sons and a daughter.