Sir Richard Glazebrook (1854–1935)

Richard Tetley Glazebrook, English physicist. K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath) 1920; K.C.V.O. (Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order) 1934; C.B. (Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath) 1910; M.A.; D.Sc. Oxford; LL.D. Edinburgh; Sc.D. Victoria; D.Sc. Heidelberg; F.R.S. (Fellow of the Royal Society) 1882;  Honorary Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers; Life Member Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Honorary Member of the Institution of  Electrical Engineers; Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics. Born 18 September 1854; died 15 December 1935; eldest son of Nicholas Smith Glazebrook, M.R.C.S.. of West Derby, Liverpool, and Sarah Anne, daughter of Richard Tetley, of Liverpool; married, 1883, Frances Gertrude, 3rd daughter of John William Atkinson of St. Johns, Ilkley, Yorkshire. His brother, William Rimington Glazebrook, became a director of Martin's Bank and other companies, and among his first cousins were Canon Michael George Glazebrook, from 1891 to 1905 head master of Clifton College, and subsequently Canon of Ely, and Hugh de Twenebrokes Glazebrook, the portrait painter. Glazebrook was educated at Dulwich College and, from 1870, at Liverpool College. In 1872, at the age of 18, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree as fifth wrangler in 1876, and his M.A. in 1879. Immediately after taking his degree, he commenced the study of Physics under Clerk Maxwell in the Cavendish Laboratory. Zaharoff Professor of Aviation and Director of the Department of Aeronautics Imperial College of Technology 1920-23; member of the Statutory Commission for the University of Cambridge, 1924; President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1906; Foreign Secretary Royal Society 1926-29, awarded the Hughes medal in 1909, and a Royal medal in 1931; Director of the National Physical Laboratory 1899-1919; Chairman Aeronautical Research Committee 1908-33; member of the Home Office Committee on Factory Lighting; of the Standing Commission of Museums and Galleries 1931; he received the gold medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1933. His chief recreations were climbing in the Alps during his annual holiday, and golf at other times. Children: Gertrude Ethel (14 May 1885); Monica (17 June 1887); Arthur Rimington (28 November 1891); Marion Joan (1 January 1893). The Glazebrook medal and prize was first instituted by the Council of the Institute of Physics and The Physical Society in 1965, and the first award made in 1966.  In 1992 the Council decided that the Glazebrook medal and prize should become one of its Premier Awards and then from 2088, one of its Gold medals.