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Authorised form of nameCrossley; Arthur William (1869 - 1927); chemist
Dates1869 - 1927
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBentcliffe, Accrington, Lancashire, England
Date of birth25 February 1869
Place of deathThorngrove, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England
Date of death5 March 1927
Occupationchemist
Research fieldOrganic chemistry
Chemistry
ActivityEducation:
Mill Hill School; Owens College, Manchester; DSc (Vict Univ); PhD (Wurzburg)
Career:
Appointed lecturer in chemistry at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London (1904); director of the Research Laboratory of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and Daniell Professor of Chemistry at King’s College; secretary of the Chemical Warfare Committee of the Ministry of Munitions (1914-1918); commandant of the experimental station of the Royal Engineers at Porton, Salisbury (from 1916); director of the newly founded Cotton Research Association (1916); director of the Cotton Research Association (1919).
Memberships:
Chemical Society
Honours:
CMG 1917; CBE 1919
Awards/Medals:
Longstaff Medal 1918
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/05/1907
Age at election38
ProposerWilliam Augustus Tilden; James Johnston Dobbie; Alexander Scott; William James Russell; James Emerson Reynolds; William Ramsay; John Norman Collie
Henry Edward Armstrong; Henry Enfield Roscoe; Harold Baily Dixon; William Henry Perkin, junr; Arthur Schuster; Raphael Meldola; William Palmer Wynne
RelationshipsParents: Richard Crossley
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Dr. A. W. Crossley, C.M.G., C.B.E., F.R.S Obituary, Nature 119, 498–500 (1927) [URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/119498a0; last accessed: 28/03/2024]
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1928 vol 117 pp vi-x, plate, signed by W P W
CodeNA1209
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1907/09Crossley, Arthur William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/6/506Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Arthur Schuster, Fellow of the Royal Society25 May 1892
NLB/7/396Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Arthur Schuster, Fellow of the Royal Society6 February 1893
NLB/5/1115Copy letter from [Herbert Rix] to Mr Collings, 172 Strand5 January 1892
NLB/46/304Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Crossley, Fellow of the Royal Society9 July 1912
NLB/46/282Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur William Crossley, Fellow of the Royal Society, 10 Crediton Road, West Hampstead, N.W.5 July 1912
MC/27/61Letter from [Stanley Ernest] Carr, Chemical Society, Burlington House, London, W, to The Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W13 April 1912
NLB/52/506Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society4 January 1916
NLB/52/862Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to William Bate Hardy Esquire, Vice President of the Royal Society and FRS3 March 1916
NLB/54/603Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Harrison & Sons2 July 1917
NLB/58/287Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS16 April 1920
NLB/66/926Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, C. M. G. FRS23 September 1924
NLB/59/580Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]21 October 1920
NLB/66/531Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS24 May 1924
NLB/52/69Copy letter from Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society the Royal Society to Professor Arthur William Crossley FRS4 August 1915
NLB/57/104Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent21 July 1919
NLB/67/129Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS30 October 1924
NLB/60/641Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS8 March 1921
NLB/57/133Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor AW [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS27 July 1919
NLB/57/482Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor AW [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS, CMG14 November 1919
IM/001009Crossley, Arthur William1922
NLB/63/11Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS14 June 1922
NLB/65/586Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, CMG, FRS23 November 1923
NLB/65/836Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS17 January 1924
NLB/66/282Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley FRS2 April 1924
NLB/67/798Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS11 March 1925
NLB/68/542Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS30 July 1925
NLB/68/600Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, CMG, FRS17 September 1925
NLB/70/409Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS25 March 1927
NLB/71/101Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Assistant Secretary, Chemical Society [Royal Society of Chemistry]5 January 1928
NLB/67/829Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS19 March 1925
NLB/66/103Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS.22 February 1924
NLB/66/334Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS10 April 1924
NLB/68/589Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, CMG, FRS11 September 1925
NLB/66/551Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS29 May 1924
NLB/68/163Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS22 May 1925
NLB/66/36Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS12 February 1924
NLB/67/101Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS21 October 1924
NLB/56/398Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Percy Faraday] Frankland, FRS29 January 1919
NLB/52New Letter Book volume 52, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1915-8 March 1916
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
PP/18/21Paper, 'On the electrolysis of silver nitrate in vacuo' by Arthur Schuster and Arthur William Crossley[1891-1892]
PP/18/21/1Manuscript, 'On the electrolysis of silver nitrate in vacuo' by Arthur Schuster and Arthur William Crossley[1891-1892]
PP/18/21/2Diagram, experimental equipment by Arthur Schuster and Arthur William Crossley[1891-1892]
MC/26/49Letter from Arthur [William] Crossley, Chemical Society, Burlington House, London, W, to The Secretaries, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W20 February 1911
MC/28/51Letter from Arthur [William] Crossley, 10 Crediton Road, West Hampstead, N.W, to Robert Harrison, [Royal Society]23 November 1913
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