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Brunner Professorships

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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]

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]

List of Brunner Professors of Physical Chemistry

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References

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  1. ^ a b Stephen E. Koss (1970). Sir John Brunner, Radical Plutocrat, 1842-1919. CUP Archive. p. 170. GGKEY:PYWB7NU132Y.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "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.)
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  7. ^ "Fairman, Prof. Herbert Walter". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Professor Kenneth Kitchen". Egypt Exploration Society. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  10. ^ "Lewis, William Cudmore McCullagh". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  11. ^ "Bawn, Cecil Edwin Henry". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  12. ^ Benjamin, Alison (27 November 2007). "Profile: Professor Sir David King". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  13. ^ "Schiffrin, Prof. David Jorge". Who's Who 2019. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2019.