Frankland, Percy Faraday ♂

Education

Professor of Chemistry, University College [Dundee] 1888-1894 (resigned). LL.D. 1.4.1902.

Birth/childhood

Born London 8.10.1858 2nd son of Sir Edmund Frankland, K.C.B. [Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath] and Sophie Fick.

Career

Attended University College School, London.

Studied Royal School of Mines and Wurzburg University - Ph.D. B.Sc. London 1881.

Demonstrator and lecturer Royal School of Mines 1880-1888. [University lecturer]

Professor of Chemistry, University College [Dundee] 1888-1894 (resigned). LL.D. 1.4.1902. [St Andrews University] [University professor]

Professor of Chemistry, Mason’s College, Birmingham later Birmingham University 1894-1919. Retired to House of Letterawe, Argyll. Sc.D. Dublin 1912. LL.D Birmingham 1924. D.Sc. Sheffield 1926. C.B.E. [Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire] 1920.

Publications

Agricultural chemical analysis. Founded upon "Leitfaden für die agricultur-chemische Analyse." (London: Macmillan, 1889)

Death

Died 28.10.1946.

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