BROWN, FREDERICK DOUGLAS (1851-1922) was born at Woodford, Essex, and educated in England and at Strasbourg University, where he graduated. It was then a university of France. (Honorary M.A., Oxford; B.Sc., London.) He proceeded to study chemistry at St Bartholomew's Hospital (1870), the Royal College of Chemistry and Leipzig University. Graduating B.Sc. at London in 1873, he entered on research in organic chemistry at the Royal Institution, London, and physical chemistry in the Royal School of Mines. In 1880 he became a lecturer at Oxford and he taught at Clifton and Cheltenham until 1883 when he was appointed professor of chemistry at Auckland University College. This post he held to 1914, when he was appointed emeritus professor. He was a director of the Auckland Gas Co. and vice-chairman of the Grammar School board. Brown died on 2 Aug 1922.

Cycl. NZ., ii; N.Z. Herald, 10 Apr 1883, 3 Aug 1922

Reference: Volume 1, page 66

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