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'''Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Baronet''' [[Royal Victorian Order|KCVO]], [[Royal College of Physicians|FRCP]] ([[20 December]] [[1871]] - [[17 December]] [[1945]]), was a prominent British physician and [[Regius Professor of Medicine (Oxford)|Regius Professor of Medicine]] at the [[University of Oxford]] (1928-1943).

Buzzard was the son of Thomas Buzzard and his wife Isabel Wass. 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, London]], and President of the [[British Medical Association]] between 1936 and 1937.<ref>Charles Mosley, ed. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition'' (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., Wilmington, Delaware, 2003) vol. 1 p. 627</ref>

He gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in the service of the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] and was made a Knight Commander, [[Royal Victorian Order]] (K.C.V.O.) 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 of the United Kingdom]] between 1932 and 1936, and to [[Edward VIII]] in 1936. He was made Extra Physician to [[George VI of the United Kingdom]] in 1937.

Buzzard married May, daughter of Edward Bliss, on [[21 March]] [[1899]]. They had one son and four daughters. He died in December 1945, aged 73, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only son, Anthony, who became a [[Rear-Admiral]] in the Royal Navy. Lady Buzzard died in 1951.

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==Further Reading==
*Frank Honigsbaum, ''Buzzard, Sir (Edward) Farquhar, first baronet (1871–1945)'' In: ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004)
*Alexander Macdougall Cooke, ''Sir E. Farquhar Buzzard, Bt., K.C.V.O., D.M., F.R.C.P: An appreciation'' ISBN-10: 0950441406


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