Editing Henry Tizard (section)

==Life==
Tizard was born in [[Gillingham, Kent|Gillingham]], [[Kent]] in 1885, the only son of [[Thomas Henry Tizard]] (1839–1924), naval officer and hydrographer, and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Churchward. His ambition to join the navy was thwarted by poor eyesight, and he instead studied at [[Westminster School]] and [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], where he concentrated on [[mathematics]] and [[chemistry]], doing work on indicators and the motions of ions in gases. Tizard graduated in 1908 and at his tutor's suggestion, he spent time in Berlin, where he met and formed a close friendship with [[Frederick Alexander Lindemann]], later an influential scientific advisor of [[Winston Churchill]]. In 1909, he became a researcher in the Davy–Faraday Laboratory of the [[Royal Institution]], working on colour change indicators. In 1911, Tizard returned to Oxford as a tutorial fellow at Oriel College and to work as a demonstrator in the electrical laboratory. On 25 July 1942, Tizard was elected President of Magdalen College, Oxford. He resigned this position in 1946.

Tizard was married on 24 April 1915 to Kathleen Eleanor (d. 1968), daughter of Arthur Prangley Wilson, a mining engineer. They had three sons: [[Peter Tizard|Sir (John) Peter Mills Tizard]], who became a professor of paediatrics at the [[University of London]] and Regius Professor of Physic at Oxford (1916-1993); [[Richard Henry Tizard]] (1917–2005), an engineer and senior tutor at [[Churchill College, Cambridge]]; and David (b. 1922), a general practitioner in [[London]].