Brunner Professorships
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
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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
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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
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- 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.