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CAPT. THOMAS HENRY TIZARD, formerly Assistant Hydrographer of the Navy, died on February 17 in his eighty-fifth year. He was the senior surviving officer of the old navigating branch, and came from an old seafaring family. Born at Weymouth on March 13, 1839, son of Mr. Joseph Tizard, his grandfather commanded an armed merchant vessel at the battle of Copenhagen. Educated at Royal Hospital School, Greenwich, he joined the Navy as master's assistant just seventy years ago, and served in H.M.S. Dragon with the Baltic Fleet during the Russian war of 1854-1856, being present at the attack on Fort Gustasvard and also at the bombardment of Sveaborg. After the Russian war, Tizard was appointed to H.M.S. Indus on the West Indian station, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, his former captain in the Dragon. Promoted to second master in February 1860, he returned to England shortly after wards. Following the inclination of a mathematical and scientific turn of mind, the surveying service had attractions for him, and he was appointed to H.M. surveying vessel Rifleman on the China station. He served in that ship for seven years, during which time he laid the foundation of his subsequent reputation as an accomplished surveyor. The Rifleman was largely engaged on the survey of the reefs and shoals abounding =in the,South China Sea between Singapore and Manilla, and for some three years Tizard had command of the schooner Saracen, acting as tender to the Rifleman. He was promoted to the rank of master in June 1864, and returned home three years later suffering severely from dysentery.
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F., A. Capt. T. H. Tizard, F.R.S. Nature 113, 395–397 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113395a0
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