Mr Perran Ziar

Mr Perran Ziar is a Fellow Commoner at Magdalene.

Mr Perran Ziar is a Fellow Commoner at Magdalene. He is a Steward and rowing coach of Magdalene Boat Club (MBC), and President and Membership Secretary of the association of MBC alumni now known as the Mallory Club.

Perran came up to Magdalene in 1968 to read Law. After graduating he was offered a place to return to study Architecture but instead decided on Dentistry and went to Bart’s Hospital and then on to the Royal Dental Hospital. He ran a general and specialist practice in Cornwall, supervised new dental graduates and taught at the Peninsula Dental and Medical School. He has always believed in a healthy work-life balance and in 2003 all members of his practice moved successfully on to a 4-day working week.

After retirement in 2012 Perran began coaching with Magdalene Boat Club where he recognised the benefits rowing could bring not only to physical fitness but also as a counter-balance to academic pressures and mental health problems. He has worked particularly with those new to the sport as well as helping to reinvigorate the association of MBC alumni known as the Mallory Club. As a Steward he found commercial sponsors for the Boat Club and hopes to live long enough to celebrate the 200th anniversary of MBC in 2028.