Three chairs at the University of Liverpool were endowed by local industrialist Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet: the Brunner Professorship of Economic Science, the Brunner Professorship of Egyptology, and the Brunner Professorship of Physical Chemistry.
List of Brunner Professors of Economic Science edit
The Brunner Professorship of Economic Science is a chair in economics. It was established in 1891 by John Tomlinson Brunner, the chemical industrialist and Liberal MP for Northwich. Brunner's son Sidney had been a student at University College Liverpool at the time of his death in 1890.[1] After correspondence with Willam Rathbone,[2] Brunner founded the chair in memory of both his son and his father, the Swiss-born Unitarian schoolmaster John Brunner (born 1800).[1]
- 1891 to 1922: E. C. K. Gonner
- 1930 to 1932: John Rotherford Bellerby
- 1933 to 1947: George Cyril Allen
- 1947 to 1950: Phillip Barrett Whale
- 1951 to 1969: G. L. S. Shackle
- 1970 to 1979: George Henry Peters
- 1980 to 1996: Avelino Romeo Nobay
- 1998 to 1999: Brian Hillier
List of Brunner Professors of Egyptology edit
The Brunner Professorship of Egyptology is a chair in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, England. It was founded in 1906.[3]
- 1906 to 1919: Percy Newberry[4]
- 1920 to 1933: T. Eric Peet[5]
- 1934 to 1948: Aylward M. Blackman[6]
- 1948 to 1974: H. W. Fairman[7]
- 1974 to 1991: A. F. Shore[8]
- Kenneth Kitchen - Brunner Professor Emeritus[9]
List of Brunner Professors of Physical Chemistry edit
- 1913 to 1948: William Lewis; Grant-Brunner Professor of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (1937–1948[10]
- 1948 to 1973: C. E. H. Bawn; Grant-Brunner Professor of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (1948–1969)[11]
- 1974 to 1988: David King[12]
- 1990 to 2004: David Schiffrin[13]
References edit
- ^ a b Stephen E. Koss (1970). Sir John Brunner, Radical Plutocrat, 1842-1919. CUP Archive. p. 170. GGKEY:PYWB7NU132Y.
- ^ Letters and papers relating to benefactions to Victoria University College and the University of Liverpool. (9 May 1890-10 May 1916), Brunner/4/5/6
- ^ Jason Thompson (2015). Wonderful Things [Volume 2]: A History of Egyptology: 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914. The American University in Cairo Press. pp. 171–172. ISBN 978-9774166921.
- ^ "Newberry, Percy Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35210. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Peet, Thomas Eric (1882-1934)". Griffith Institute Archive. University of Oxford. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ "Blackman, Aylward Manley". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ "Fairman, Prof. Herbert Walter". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ Pace, Eric (5 December 1994). "A. F. Shore, 70, a British Expert On Egypt After Cleopatra's Fall". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ "Professor Kenneth Kitchen". Egypt Exploration Society. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ "Lewis, William Cudmore McCullagh". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ "Bawn, Cecil Edwin Henry". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ Benjamin, Alison (27 November 2007). "Profile: Professor Sir David King". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ "Schiffrin, Prof. David Jorge". Who's Who 2019. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2019.