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BRANDE, WILLIAM THOMAS, brother of Everard Augustus Brande (qv); b. 11 Feb 1788; in school lists 1797, 1801; apprenticed to his brother as an apothecary, 2 Feb 1802; delivered lectures in London on physics, chemistry and materia medica 1808 onwards; FRS 13 Apr 1809, Copley Medal 1813; Secretary, Royal Society, 30 Nov 1816 - 30 Nov 1824; Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica, Apothecaries’ Company, 1812; Professor of Chemistry, Royal Institution, 1813-54; Fellow of London Univ. 1836; DCL Oxford 1853; investigated die steels for Mint 1823-5; Superintendent of the Machinery and Clerk of the Irons, Royal Mint, Jan 1825 - Jan 1852; Superintendent, Coinage and Die Department, Royal Mint, from 14 Jan 1852; joint editor, Quarterly Journal of Science and Art; author, The Manual of Chemistry, 1819, Dictionary of Science and Art, 1842, and other works; m. 4 Jul 1818 Anna Frederica, second dau. of Charles Hatchett FRS, Mount Clare, Surrey, and Bollington, Lincs. [check county : Cheshire ?]; d. 11 Feb 1866. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.