Collection GB 0064 TIZ - Tizard, Captain Thomas Henry (1839-1924)

GB 0064 TIZ [1854-1890] Collection

Tizard , Thomas Henry , 1839-1924 , Captain

Tizard was educated at the Royal Hospital School, Greenwich, and entered the Navy as a master's assistant in 1854. He served in the DRAGON with the Baltic Fleet during the Crimean War and then in the Mediterranean. In 1857 he was appointed to the INDUS on the North American and West Indies Station. On his return home in 1860 he was promoted to second master and served for just over a year in a cadets' training ship. In 1861 he was appointed to the surveying ship RIFLEMAN on the China Station. Following his promotion in 1864 to master, he commanded the Rifleman's tender SARACEN on surveys in the South China Sea. Between 1868 and 1879 he was first employed in survey ships in the Mediterranean and then on the oceanographic voyage of the CHALLENGER. He was promoted to staff commander in 1874. In 1880 he was appointed to command the KNIGHT ERRANT on the survey of the west coast of Britain. In 1882 he commissioned the TRITON for work on the east coast survey also both in 1880 and 1882 he took scientific expeditions to the Faeroe-Shetland Channel. In 1889 he was promoted to staff captain and in 1891 he was appointed Assistant Hydrographer of the Navy and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He continued to serve at the Admiralty until 1907 but was placed on the retired list, with the rank of captain in 1896. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, Tizard became a member of the Antarctic Executive Committee in 1899. Some details about Tizard are contained in the biography of his son, Sir Henry Tizard, Tizard by Ronald W Clark (London, 1965).

The first papers were presented in 1959 by Sir Henry Tizard. A second acquisition of papers was presented by Professor Sir Peter Tizard FRCP in 1986. A third acquisition was presented by Mr R.H. Tizard and Professor Sir Peter Tizard in 1989.

Papers of Thomas Henry Tizard, comprising logs, 1854 to 1867, and diaries, 1880 to 1890. A second acquisition of papers was presented by Professor Sir Peter Tizard FRCP in 1986. This consists mostly of large and small volumes, a few diaries, and official and private letters, including some correspondence re the National Antarctic Expedition and Captain R F Scott. A third acquisition of two logbooks from HMS CHALLENGER was presented by Mr R H Tizard and Professor Sir Peter Tizard in 1989.

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Please contact the Archive for further information.

English

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

The Museum also has twenty charts relating to Tizard and the CHALLENGER: please contact the Hydrography Section on 020 8312 6757 for further details.

Edited by Sarah Drewery, Oct 2011.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

2010-11-04 Tizard , Thomas Henry , 1839-1924 , Captain Naval affairs Hydrographic surveying Travel Expeditions Scott , Robert Falcon , 1868-1912 , Antarctic explorer HMS Challenger Antarctica Military affairs Surveying Military science Social sciences

The first papers were presented in 1959 by Sir Henry Tizard. A second acquisition of papers was presented by Professor Sir Peter Tizard FRCP in 1986. A third acquisition was presented by Mr R.H. Tizard and Professor Sir Peter Tizard in 1989.

Papers of Thomas Henry Tizard, comprising logs, 1854 to 1867, and diaries, 1880 to 1890. A second acquisition of papers was presented by Professor Sir Peter Tizard FRCP in 1986. This consists mostly of large and small volumes, a few diaries, and official and private letters, including some correspondence re the National Antarctic Expedition and Captain R F Scott. A third acquisition of two logbooks from HMS CHALLENGER was presented by Mr R H Tizard and Professor Sir Peter Tizard in 1989.

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Please contact the Archive for further information.

• English

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English

The Museum also has twenty charts relating to Tizard and the CHALLENGER: please contact the Hydrography Section on 020 8312 6757 for further details.

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English