| Authorised form of name | Crossley; Arthur William (1869 - 1927); chemist |
| Dates | 1869 - 1927 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Bentcliffe, Accrington, Lancashire, England |
| Date of birth | 25 February 1869 |
| Place of death | Thorngrove, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England |
| Date of death | 5 March 1927 |
| Occupation | chemist |
| Research field | Organic chemistry |
| Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
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 category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/05/1907 |
| Age at election | 38 |
| Proposer | William 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 |
| Relationships | Parents: Richard Crossley |
| Source | Sources:
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 |
| Code | NA1209 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1907/09 | Crossley, Arthur William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/6/506 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Arthur Schuster, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 May 1892 |
| NLB/7/396 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Arthur Schuster, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 February 1893 |
| NLB/5/1115 | Copy letter from [Herbert Rix] to Mr Collings, 172 Strand | 5 January 1892 |
| NLB/46/304 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Crossley, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 July 1912 |
| NLB/46/282 | Copy 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 |
| NLB/52/506 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society | 4 January 1916 |
| NLB/52/862 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to William Bate Hardy Esquire, Vice President of the Royal Society and FRS | 3 March 1916 |
| NLB/54/603 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 2 July 1917 |
| NLB/58/287 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 16 April 1920 |
| NLB/66/926 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, C. M. G. FRS | 23 September 1924 |
| NLB/59/580 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 21 October 1920 |
| NLB/66/531 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 24 May 1924 |
| NLB/52/69 | Copy letter from Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society the Royal Society to Professor Arthur William Crossley FRS | 4 August 1915 |
| NLB/57/104 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent | 21 July 1919 |
| NLB/67/129 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 30 October 1924 |
| NLB/60/641 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 8 March 1921 |
| NLB/57/133 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor AW [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 27 July 1919 |
| NLB/57/482 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor AW [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS, CMG | 14 November 1919 |
| IM/001009 | Crossley, Arthur William | 1922 |
| NLB/63/11 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 14 June 1922 |
| NLB/65/586 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, CMG, FRS | 23 November 1923 |
| NLB/65/836 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 17 January 1924 |
| NLB/66/282 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley FRS | 2 April 1924 |
| NLB/67/798 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 11 March 1925 |
| NLB/68/542 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 30 July 1925 |
| NLB/68/600 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, CMG, FRS | 17 September 1925 |
| NLB/70/409 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS | 25 March 1927 |
| NLB/71/101 | Copy 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/67/829 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 19 March 1925 |
| NLB/66/103 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS. | 22 February 1924 |
| NLB/66/334 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 10 April 1924 |
| NLB/68/589 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, CMG, FRS | 11 September 1925 |
| NLB/66/551 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 29 May 1924 |
| NLB/68/163 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 22 May 1925 |
| NLB/66/36 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 12 February 1924 |
| NLB/67/101 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur William] Crossley, FRS | 21 October 1924 |
| NLB/56/398 | Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Percy Faraday] Frankland, FRS | 29 January 1919 |
| NLB/52 | New Letter Book volume 52, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 9 July 1915-8 March 1916 |
| NLB/57 | New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 27 June 1919-27 February 1920 |
| PP/18/21 | Paper, 'On the electrolysis of silver nitrate in vacuo' by Arthur Schuster and Arthur William Crossley | [1891-1892] |
| PP/18/21/1 | Manuscript, 'On the electrolysis of silver nitrate in vacuo' by Arthur Schuster and Arthur William Crossley | [1891-1892] |
| PP/18/21/2 | Diagram, experimental equipment by Arthur Schuster and Arthur William Crossley | [1891-1892] |