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WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE (1788-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 420 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:THOMAS See also:BRANDE (1788-1866)  , See also:English chemist, was See also:born in See also:London on the I1th of See also:January 1788 . After leaving See also:Westminster school, he was apprenticed, in 1802, to his See also:brother, an See also:apothecary, with the view of adopting the profession of See also:medicine, but his See also:bent was towards See also:chemistry, a See also:sound know-ledge of which he acquired in his spare See also:time . In 1812 he was appointed See also:professor of chemistry to the Apothecaries' Society, and delivered a course of lectures before the See also:Board of See also:Agriculture in See also:place of See also:Sir See also:Humphry See also:Davy, whom in the following See also:year he succeeded in the See also:chair of chemistry at the Royal Institution, London . His See also:Manual of Chemistry, first published in 1819, enjoyed wide popularity, and among other See also:works he brought out a See also:Dictionary of See also:Science, Literature and See also:Art in 1842, on a new edition of which he was engaged when he died at Tunbridge See also:Wells on the 11th of See also:February 1866 .

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