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Authorised form of nameTizard; Thomas Henry (1839 - 1924); hydrographer
Dates1839 - 1924
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWeymouth, Dorset, England
Date of birth13 March 1839
Place of deathKingston-on-Thames, Surrey
Date of death17/02/1924
Research fieldHydrography
ActivityCareer:
Joined the Royal Navy as Master's Assistant (1854); served in the Baltic (1854-1856); joined the surveying service (1861); Navigating Officer on HMS Challenger, during the Challenger Expedition (1872-1876); wrote the hydrographical section of the report; Staff Commander (by 1891); Assistant Hydrographer to the Admiralty (1891-1907)
Honours:
CB 1899
Memberships:
FRGS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1891
RelationshipsSon of Joseph Tizard; married (1881) Mary Elizabeth, daughter of W H Churchward; father of Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (FRS 1926)
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1924 vol 105 pp vi-ix, plate, signed by A M F
Royal Society codeNA6162
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1891/18Tizard, Thomas Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/547/7/34Copy letter from Robert [William Frederick] Harrison, Royal Society, London, to A B [Alfred Bray] Kempe21 May 1903
MS/547/7/27Letter from Robert [William Frederick] Harrison, Royal Society, London, to A B [Alfred Bray] Kempe8 May 1903
MS/547/7/28Copy letter from T [Thomas Henry] Tizard to Dr [Joseph] Larmor8 May 1903
MS/547/7/29Letter from J [Joseph] Larmor, St John's College, Cambridge, to the Treasurer [Alfred Bray] Kempe9 May 1903
NLB/26/516Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Fellow of the Royal Society3 April 1903
NLB/26/630Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Captain [Thomas Henry] Tizard, Fellow of the Royal Society1 May 1903
NLB/41/466Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Fellow of the Royal Society18 December 1909
NLB/5/568Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons13 July 1891
NLB/9/252Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Robert Henry Scott, Fellow of the Royal Society23 April 1894
NLB/26/673Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Fellow of the Royal Society8 May 1903
NLB/35/44Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons8 April 1907
NLB/26/857Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Fellow of the Royal Society, Admiralty13 June 1903
NLB/23/2/78Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster and Arthur William Rucker, to Professor [Edward Bagnall] Poulton and Captain [Thomas Henry] Tizard, [Fellow of the Royal Society]7 June 1901
NLB/29/100Copy memo from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Fellow of the Royal Society, William Napier Shaw, Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Fellow of the Royal Society[June 1904]
NLB/26/519Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Captain [Thomas Henry] Tizard, Fellow of the Royal Society6 April 1903
NLB/27/866Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1903
NLB/28/98Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Fellow of the Royal Society8 January 1904
NLB/27/869Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Fellow of the Royal Society11 December 1903
NLB/28/114Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society12 January 1904
NLB/41/485Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Fellow of the Royal Society22 December 1909
NLB/47/763Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Captain T [Thomas] H [Henry] Tizard FRS8 April 1913
NLB/66/81Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles] Chree, FRS19 February 1924
NLB/66/98Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Admiral Sir Arthur Mostyn Field, KCB, FRS22 February 1924
NLB/26/746Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Captain [Thomas Henry] Tizard, Fellow of the Royal Society22 May 1903
NLB/29/409Copy letter from Joseph Larmor and Archibald Geikie, to Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Fellow of the Royal Society, Charles Thomas Rees Wilson, William Henry Dines, Fellow of the Royal Society, H N Dickson, A J Herbertson, Dr Charles Chree, Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor Joseph Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society, Dr William Napier Shaw, Fellow of the Royal Society, Dr H R Mill10 October 1904
MS/547/5/68Letter from T [Thomas Henry] Tizard, Berwick Villa, The Avenue, Surbiton, to Mr [Alfred Bray] Kempe11 July 1901
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