Wyndham Dunstan

Professor Sir Wyndham Rowland Dunstan KCMG FRS FCS (1861-1949), was professor of chemistry and Director of the Imperial Institute in London.

Biography

Dunstan was born on 24 May 1861. He was educated at Bedford School before becoming an assistant to Theophilus Redwood, Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in London.

In 1884, Dunstan was appointed as Demonstrator in the University Laboratories at the University of Oxford and, in 1885, as University Lecturer in Chemistry. In 1886, he succeeded Redwood as Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in London and, in 1903, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Imperial Institute in London.

He acted as President of the International Association of Tropical Agriculture and was a Member of the Advisory Committee for Tropical Agriculture.[1][2]

He died on 20 April 1949.

References

  1. ↑ Henry, T. A. (1 January 1950). "Wyndham Rowland Dunstan. 1861-1949". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 7 (19): 63–81. doi:10.2307/768780 (inactive 2016-08-26). JSTOR 768780.
  2. ↑ "DUNSTAN, Wyndham Rowland" (1907). Who's Who, vol. 59: p. 526

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