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.{{cite book|author=Stephen E. Koss|authorlink = Stephen Koss|title=Sir John Brunner, Radical Plutocrat, 1842-1919|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dU09AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA170|year=1970|publisher=CUP Archive|page=170|id=GGKEY:PYWB7NU132Y}} After correspondence with Willam Rathbone,Letters and papers relating to benefactions to Victoria University College and the University of Liverpool. (9 May 1890-10 May 1916), [http://sca-arch.liv.ac.uk/ead/html/brunnerjt-p4.shtml Brunner/4/5/6] Brunner founded the chair in memory of both his son and his father, the Swiss-born Unitarian schoolmaster John Brunner (born 1800).

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.{{cite book|author=Jason Thompson|title=Wonderful Things [Volume 2]: A History of Egyptology: 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tLs-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA171|year=2015|publisher=The American University in Cairo Press|isbn=978-9774166921|pages=171–172}}

  • 1906 to 1919: Percy Newberry{{Cite ODNB|id=35210|title=Newberry, Percy Edward}}
  • 1920 to 1933: T. Eric Peet{{cite web |title=Peet, Thomas Eric (1882-1934) |url=http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4peet.html |website=Griffith Institute Archive |publisher=University of Oxford |accessdate=20 March 2019}}
  • 1934 to 1948: Aylward M. Blackman{{cite web |title=Blackman, Aylward Manley |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-234810 |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=20 March 2019 |date=1 December 2007}}
  • 1948 to 1974: H. W. Fairman{{cite web |title=Fairman, Prof. Herbert Walter |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-164038 |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=20 March 2019 |date=1 December 2007}}
  • 1974 to 1991: A. F. Shore{{cite news |last1=Pace |first1=Eric |title=A. F. Shore, 70, a British Expert On Egypt After Cleopatra's Fall |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/05/obituaries/a-f-shore-70-a-british-expert-on-egypt-after-cleopatra-s-fall.html |accessdate=20 March 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=5 December 1994}}
  • Kenneth Kitchen - Brunner Professor Emeritus{{cite web |title=Professor Kenneth Kitchen |url=https://www.ees.ac.uk/faqs/kenneth-kitchen |website=Egypt Exploration Society |accessdate=20 March 2019}}

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{{cite web |title=Lewis, William Cudmore McCullagh |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-239849 |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=20 March 2019 |date=1 December 2007}}
  • 1948 to 1973: C. E. H. Bawn; Grant-Brunner Professor of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (1948–1969){{cite web |title=Bawn, Cecil Edwin Henry |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-6837 |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=20 March 2019 |date=1 December 2007}}
  • 1974 to 1988: David King{{cite news |last1=Benjamin |first1=Alison |title=Profile: Professor Sir David King |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/nov/27/gmcrops.food |accessdate=20 March 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=27 November 2007}}
  • 1990 to 2004: David Schiffrin{{cite web |title=Schiffrin, Prof. David Jorge |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-34028 |website=Who's Who 2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=20 March 2019 |date=1 December 2018}}

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