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Authorised form of nameLiversidge; Archibald (1847 - 1927); chemist and promoter of science in Australia
Dates1847 - 1927
Place of birthTurnham Green, Middlesex
Date of birth17 November 1847
Date of death26/09/1927
Research fieldChemistry
Geology
Mineralogy
ActivityEducation:
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; retired (1908)
Memberships:
FGS; FCS; FLS; Physical Society; FIC
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election08/06/1882
RelationshipsSon of John Liversidge of Bexley, Kent; unmarried
SourcesSources:
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 Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/27838887
Royal Society codeNA6646
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1882/15Liversidge, Archibald: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/002782Liversidge, Archibaldnd
NLB/2/37Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society13 December 1887
NLB/3/466Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to R Etheridge, Junior, Australian Museum, Sydney17 June 1889
NLB/3/472Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor [Archibald] Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society17 June 1889
NLB/6/159Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society14 March 1892
NLB/11/162Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Kegan Paul & Company7 May 1895
NLB/11/411Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society24 June 1895
NLB/13/235Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society8 July 1896
NLB/13/624Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society20 October 1896
NLB/13/717Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society10 November 1896
NLB/14/423Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society8 March 1897
NLB/14/539Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society, The University, Sydney, New South Wales25 March 1897
NLB/15/159Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons7 July 1897
NLB/44/677Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Archibald] Liversidge FRS, Hornton Cottage, Hornton Street, Kensington, W16 October 1911
NLB/17/240Copy 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/16/837Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Robarts, Lubbock & Company, 15 Lombard Street, E.C.16 June 1898
NLB/19/603Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons9 November 1899
NLB/28/72Copy letter from [Theodore E James], to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]5 January 1904
NLB/36/304Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Robarts Lubbock & Company9 October 1907
NLB/32/720Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]15 May 1906
NLB/35/362Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons23 May 1907
NLB/35/346Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons16 May 1907
NLB/44/600Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison [signed by Theodore E James] to Professor A [Archibald] Liversidge FRS 20 September 1911
NLB/45/769Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Archibald] Liversidge FRS6 May 1912
RR/20/144Referee's report by Archibald Liversidge, on a paper 'Borohydrates part II' by Morris William Travers and Rames Chandra RayMay 1913
NLB/53/617Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Archibald] Liversidge, FRS10 November 1916
NLB/58/874Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Archibald] Liversidge, FRS28 June 1920
NLB/60/345Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Archibald] Liversidge, FRS21 January 1921
NLB/69/159Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Archibald] Liversidge, FRS22 January 1926
NLB/69/158Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Shipley, FRS22 January 1926
NLB/71/11Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Edward Sharpey Schafer, FRS2 December 1927
NLB/70/882Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, OM, President of the Royal Society29 October 1927
NLB/72/576Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Tannatt William] Edgeworth David, KBE, CMG, FRS2 January 1930
RR/15/146Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'Micro-crystalline structure of platinum' by Thomas Andrews21 December 1901
NLB/14/414Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society6 March 1897
NLB/15/142Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society6 July 1897
NLB/15/190Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society13 July 1897
NLB/17/156Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Archibald Liversidge, Fellow of the Royal Society, The University, Sydney, New South Wales28 July 1898
MC/9/498Letter from Archd [Archibald] Liversidge, University of Sydney, New South Wales, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]24 February 1873
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
MC/12/265Letter from A [Archibald] Liversidge, The University, Sydney, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]4 August 1882
MC/12/266Letter from A [Archibald] Liversidge, The University, Sydney, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society4 August 1882
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
RR/21/152Referee's report by Archibald Liversidge, on two papers 'Borohydrates.—Part II' and 'Borohydrates.—Part III' by Morris William Travers and others27 June 1914
ACS/1/1/227Letter 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/21/390Letter from Archibald Liversidge, The Chemical Laboratory, The University of Sydney, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London10 April 1906
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
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