Richard Henry Tizard
Encyclopedia
Engineer
An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...
and founding Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge
Churchill College, Cambridge
Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.In 1958, a Trust was established with Sir Winston Churchill as its Chairman of Trustees, to build and endow a college for 60 fellows and 540 Students as a national and Commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill; its...
.
The Sixties were a period of turbulence in academic governance, and Cambridge
students did not revolt less than their peers at LSE and elsewhere.
Tizard came from a family of high achievers with a productive stubborn streak.
He used his political skills to marshall 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.
In 1970 Churchill's student union, the Junior Common Room (JCR), inspired by the worldwide student democracy movement
Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)
Students for a Democratic Society was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969...
, led the NUS in taking the Cambridge Town Clerk to the High Court to overturn a 19th century precedent that denied students the right to vote in their University Towns. This new interpretation of electoral law was made possible by the Labour Government's Sixth Reform Act (Representation of the People Act 1969
Representation of the People Act 1969
The Representation of the People Act 1969 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It extended suffrage to 18-20 year olds. Previously, only those 21 or over were permitted to vote...
).
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 his outreach activity to 30 primary schools.
External links
- The TimesThe TimesThe Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, 15 December 2005, Distinguished engineer and influential founding Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge - The IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
, 10 October 2005, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dick-tizard-510308.html - The Stanford Tizard Programme, http://tizard.stanford.edu