| Authorised form of name | Liversidge; Archibald (1847 - 1927); chemist; promoter of science in Australia |
| Dates | 1847 - 1927 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Turnham Green, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 17 November 1847 |
| Place of death | England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 26 September 1927 |
| Occupation | Chemist |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Metallurgy |
| Geology |
| Mineralogy |
| Activity | Education:
Privately educated; Royal School of Mines, London; Royal College of Chemistry; Cambridge University
Career:
Instructor in Chemistry, Royal School of Naval Architecture (1867); Demonstrator of Chemistry, Cambridge University (1870); Professor of Chemistry, Sydney, Australia (1873-1908); founded the faculty of Science (1879) and the School of Mines (1890), Sydney University; Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, and Hovell Lecturer, Sydney University; returned to England and settled in Fieldhead, Kingston Hill, Surrey (1907); retired (1908)
Memberships:
FGS; FCS; FLS; Physical Society; FIC |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 08/06/1882 |
| Age at election | 35 |
| Proposer | Josph Henry Gilbert |
| Robert Etheridge |
| Michael Foster |
| George Murray Humphry |
| William Huggins |
| Henry Woodward |
| Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Warington Wilkinson Smyth |
| Edward Frankland |
| Carl Schorlemmer |
| Henry Clifton Sorby |
| Charles Wyville Thomson |
| Henry Enfield Roscoe |
| William Boyd Dawkins |
| Arthur Gamgee |
| George Carey Foster |
| Relationships | Parents: John Liversidge (1810–1887), wheelwright and coachbuilder, and Caroline Sophia Jarratt (1813–1865), of Sussex. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 14946
RCN 49535
RCN 49764
RCN 49758
RCN 49760
RCN 49754
RCN 49761
RCN 49765
RCN 49753
RCN 49755
RCN 49763
RCN 49767
RCN 49661
RCN 49643
RCN 49655
RCN 49644
RCN 49656
RCN 49646
RCN 49645
RCN 49657 |
| OtherInfo | Wrote extensively on chemistry and mineralogy.
The plant Leptospermum liversidgei is named after him.
Promoted degrees for women. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1930 vol 126 pp xii-xiv, plate, signed by T W E D
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/27838887 |
| Code | NA6646 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1882/15 | Liversidge, Archibald: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/002782 | Liversidge, Archibald | nd |
| NLB/2/37 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 December 1887 |
| NLB/3/466 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to R Etheridge, Junior, Australian Museum, Sydney | 17 June 1889 |
| NLB/3/472 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor [Archibald] Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society | 17 June 1889 |
| NLB/6/159 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society | 14 March 1892 |
| NLB/11/162 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Kegan Paul & Company | 7 May 1895 |
| NLB/11/411 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 June 1895 |
| NLB/13/235 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 July 1896 |
| NLB/13/624 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 October 1896 |
| NLB/13/717 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 November 1896 |
| NLB/14/423 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society | 8 March 1897 |
| NLB/14/539 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society, The University, Sydney, New South Wales | 25 March 1897 |
| NLB/15/159 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 7 July 1897 |
| NLB/44/677 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Archibald] Liversidge FRS, Hornton Cottage, Hornton Street, Kensington, W | 16 October 1911 |
| NLB/17/240 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society, The University, Sydney, N.S.W. | 19 September 1898 |
| NLB/16/837 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Robarts, Lubbock & Company, 15 Lombard Street, E.C. | 16 June 1898 |
| NLB/19/603 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 9 November 1899 |
| NLB/28/72 | Copy letter from [Theodore E James], to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 5 January 1904 |
| NLB/36/304 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Robarts Lubbock & Company | 9 October 1907 |
| NLB/32/720 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 15 May 1906 |
| NLB/35/362 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 23 May 1907 |
| NLB/35/346 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 16 May 1907 |
| NLB/44/600 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison [signed by Theodore E James] to Professor A [Archibald] Liversidge FRS | 20 September 1911 |
| NLB/45/769 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Archibald] Liversidge FRS | 6 May 1912 |
| RR/20/144 | Referee's report by Archibald Liversidge, on a paper 'Borohydrates part II' by Morris William Travers and Rames Chandra Ray | May 1913 |
| NLB/53/617 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Archibald] Liversidge, FRS | 10 November 1916 |
| NLB/58/874 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Archibald] Liversidge, FRS | 28 June 1920 |
| NLB/60/345 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Archibald] Liversidge, FRS | 21 January 1921 |
| NLB/69/159 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Archibald] Liversidge, FRS | 22 January 1926 |
| NLB/69/158 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Shipley, FRS | 22 January 1926 |
| NLB/71/11 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Edward Sharpey Schafer, FRS | 2 December 1927 |
| NLB/70/882 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, OM, President of the Royal Society | 29 October 1927 |
| NLB/72/576 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Tannatt William] Edgeworth David, KBE, CMG, FRS | 2 January 1930 |
| RR/15/146 | Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'Micro-crystalline structure of platinum' by Thomas Andrews | 21 December 1901 |
| NLB/14/414 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 March 1897 |
| NLB/15/142 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 July 1897 |
| NLB/15/190 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 July 1897 |
| NLB/17/156 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society, The University, Sydney, New South Wales | 28 July 1898 |
| MC/9/498 | Letter from Archd [Archibald] Liversidge, University of Sydney, New South Wales, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 24 February 1873 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| MC/12/265 | Letter from A [Archibald] Liversidge, The University, Sydney, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 4 August 1882 |
| MC/12/266 | Letter from A [Archibald] Liversidge, The University, Sydney, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society | 4 August 1882 |
| MC/12 | Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1880-1883 |
| RR/21/152 | Referee's report by Archibald Liversidge, on two papers 'Borohydrates.—Part II' and 'Borohydrates.—Part III' by Morris William Travers and others | 27 June 1914 |
| ACS/1/1/227 | Letter from [Archibald] Liversidge, Fieldhead, Coombe Warren, Kingston Hill, Surrey, to Alan [Archibald] Campbell Swinton [Esquire, F. R. S., 66 Victoria [Street], Westminster, S. W. | 29 December 1917 |
| MC/21/390 | Letter from Archibald Liversidge, The Chemical Laboratory, The University of Sydney, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London | 10 April 1906 |
| MC/21 | Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1906 |