Thomas Buzzard

Thomas Lovell Buzzard FRCP (24 August 1831 – 1 January 1919) was a Victorian English doctor who worked at the National Hospital, Queen Square.

[2] Recommended by John Hughlings Jackson, in 1867, Buzzard was appointed to the staff of the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic.

[3] In 1891 he wrote On the simulation of hysteria by organic disease of the nervous system, and articles on neurology and allied subjects for Quain's Dictionary of Medicine.

[6] He married Isabel Wass in 1889, daughter of Joseph Wass, a noted Lead Smelter, of Lea Green in Derbyshire, and had two daughters and four sons, including Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Baronet, FRCP, who followed in his footsteps as physician to the National Hospital.

Buzzard continued in practice until the age of seventy-nine, and published in his eighty-fifth year a book of his experiences in the Crimea.

The Doctor , Luke Fildes, 1891. Oil-on-canvas, Tate Gallery, London.