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MAXWELL SIMPSON, ninth and youngest child of the late Thomas Simpson, was born at Beech Hill, co. Armagh, Ireland, on March 15, 1815. Educated at a private school in Newry, he thence proceeded to Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his Arts degree, and subsequently entered the School of Medicine. In 1847 he graduated as Bachelor of Medicine in Trinity College; but already he had been strongly attracted towards the study of chemistry, and instead of settling down to the practice of physic, he now became associated, as lecturer in chemistry, with the medical school of Park Street, Dublin. This school had been established about 1824 by a number of physicians and surgeons, and had included among its teachers James Apjohn, subsequently professor of chemistry in the University of Dublin. From Park Street he was transferred to the Peter Street School of Medicine, where he remained for a few years.
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DIXON, A. Prof. Maxwell Simpson, F.R.S. . Nature 65, 515–516 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065515a0
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