William Mair (chemist)

William Mair FRSE FCS (1868-1948) was a Scottish pharmacist and manufacturing chemist.

Life

He was born in Osborne Place in Dundee in 1868, the son of Thomas Mair a builder.[1] Around 1890 he is working in the pharmacy of Dundee Royal Infirmary.

He was the main Scottish representative to the London chemical company Fletcher Fletcher & Co.[2]

In 1931 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the American Pharmaceutical Association. In 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Ralph Stockman, James Pickering Kendall, Hugh Ferguson Watson, Robert Taylor Skinner and George Merson.[3]

He died on 1 December 1948.

Publications
  • Pharmacy in Norway (1921)[4]

Family

He was married to Isabella Jane Urquhart (d.1932).

References
  1. Dundee Post Office Directory 1868
  2. http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Fletcher,_Fletcher_and_Co
  3. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  4. The Chemist and Druggist (periodical) vol 95


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