Anthony was born on 28 June 1935 in Surrey, England, the son of prominent Royal Navy officer and Director of Naval Intelligence Anthony Buzzard, and grandson of the Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard.
Anthony Buzzard was a 1963 graduate of Ambassador College, part of the Worldwide Church of God founded by Herbert W. Armstrong.
Upon graduation in Pasadena, California, Buzzard then transferred to teach music at its campus in Bricket Wood, England.
In the early 1970s, Buzzard left the Worldwide Church of God and published theological views refuting those of Armstrong.
[2] Following his break with Armstrong, in 1981 Buzzard, founded with the help of Charles F. Hunting, the Restoration Fellowship,[3] a Christian group dedicated to missionary and teaching work all over the world.