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AS recorded with regret last week, Prof. James Campbell Brown, professor of general chemistry at the University of Liverpool, died very suddenly from heart failure on Monday, March 14. Prof. Campbell Brown, who was the son of the late Mr. George Brown, a chemical manufacturer with a business in London, was born in Aberdeenshire in 1843. He studied at the University of Aberdeen, and afterwards at the Royal College of Chemistry and the Royal School of Mines, London. He was a D.Sc. of London University, and LL.D. (honoris causa) of the University of Aberdeen. His connection with Liverpool began in 1867, when he was appointed lecturer in chemistry and toxicology at the Royal Infirmary School of Medicine. He became public analyst for Liverpool in 1872, for Cheshire and the Isle of Man in 1873, and for Lancashire in 1875. In 1877, being then chairman of the Royal Infirmary School of Medicine, he took a prominent part in the movement for the foundation of a university college in Liverpool, and from 1878 to 1884 was one of the secretaries of the special committee which afterwards became the council of the new college. Prof. Campbell Brown may, therefore, rightly be said to have been one of the prominent founders of the present University of Liverpool. In 1881 he was appointed to the chair of chemistry endowed by Mr. Grant, of Rock Ferry. When death overtook him he was still the active occupant of this chair.
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D., F. Prof. J. Campbell Brown . Nature 83, 102 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083102a0
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