| Authorised form of name | Attfield; John (1835 - 1911) |
| Dates | 1835 - 1911 |
| Place of birth | Near Barnet, Hertfordshire |
| Date of birth | 28 August 1835 |
| Place of death | Ashlands, Watford |
| Date of death | 18/03/1911 |
| Occupation | Pharmacist |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Pharmacy |
| Activity | Education:
School of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Society. PhD (1862, Tubingen)
Career:
Apprenticed to William Frederick Smith, pharmacist, of Walworth (aged 14); Assistant to John Stenhouse (FRS 1848), at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London (1854); Director of the Educational Laboratories of the Pharmaceutical Society, London (1862); Professor of Practical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Society; retired (1896)
Memberships:
FCS (1862); Pharmaceutical Society (Corresponding); Society of Pharmacy, Paris (Corresponding);
Society of Pharmacy of Victoria (Honorary); American Pharmaceutical Association (Honorary)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/06/1880 |
| Relationships | Son of John Atfield, surveyor, of Whetstone |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1911-1912 vol 86 pp xliv-xlvi signed by A C |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/6616333 |
| Code | NA6041 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/14/42 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Attfield, Fellow of the Royal Society | 16 December 1896 |
| RR/4/6 | Referee's report by William Allen Miller, on a paper 'On the spectrum of carbon' by John Attfield | 25 June 1862 |
| NLB/17/743 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Attfield, Fellow of the Royal Society | 14 December 1898 |
| NLB/18/15 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Attfield, Fellow of the Royal Society | 22 December 1898 |
| RR/4/5 | Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the spectrum of carbon' by John Attfield | 1 July 1862 |
| EC/1880/04 | Attfield, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/000154 | Attfield, John | 16 February 1894 |
| PT/64/9 | Paper, 'On the spectrum of carbon' by John Attfield | [1862] |
| MC/12/55 | Letter from John Attfield, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London, to G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society | 5 June 1880 |
| MC/12 | Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1880-1883 |
| MC/16/25 | Letter from John Attfield, Ashlands, Watford, to John Evans, Treasurer of the Royal Society | 22 March 1893 |
| MC/16 | Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1893-1896 |