Richard Henry Tizard (25 June 1917 – 5 September 2005) was a distinguished

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and founding Fellow of

Churchill College, Cambridge Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but still retains a strong interest in the arts and humanities. In 1958, a trust was establis ...

Life

Dick Tizard was the son of Sir Henry Tizard. He was chosen by Sir

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as a founding Fellow of

Churchill College Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but still retains a strong interest in the arts and humanities. In 1958, a trust was establish ...

, a new science-focused college at the

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. He offered a fellowship to John Arundel Barnes. The 1960s were a period of student unrest and turbulence in academic governance. Tizard came from a family of high achievers with a productive stubborn streak. He used his political skills to marshal his grammar, state and public school intake behind a programme of historic renewal and reform in the University. In 1969, he led his colleagues to accept students into membership of the College Council and to admit women, the first Cambridge men's college to do so. The same year, the Labour government's

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reduced the

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to 18 years. Under Tizard's guidance, in 1970 Churchill's student union, the

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(JCR), inspired by the worldwide student democracy movement, led the National Union of Students (NUS) in taking the Cambridge Town Clerk to the High Court to overturn a 19th-century precedent that won students the right to vote in their university towns. As Senior Tutor, Tizard pioneered outreach, admitting 600 men from 300 schools. After his retirement, he discussed with non-resident members of the JCR the possibility of their extending this outreach activity to 30 primary schools. Churchill College later named a room after him.

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The Stanford Tizard Programme
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tizard, Richard Henry 1917 births 2005 deaths 20th-century British engineers Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge People educated at Rugby School

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