A founder of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain (now the Royal Society of Chemistry)
A founder of the Society of Chemical Industry
Personal details
Born
Stevenson Macadam
27 April 1829 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Died
24 January 1901 (1901-01-25) (aged 71) Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nationality
British
Spouse
Jessie Andrew Ivison (1834–1912)
Education
Glasgow Mechanics Institution
Giessen University, Germany
Occupation
Scottish Analytical Chemist, Lecturer Edinburgh University, 'Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Stevenson MacadamFRSE FIC FCS FRSSA (27 April 1829 – 24 January 1901) was a Scottish scientist, analytical chemist, lecturer, and academic author.
He was a founding member of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain (now the Royal Society of Chemistry) and a founding member of the Society of Chemical Industry. He was also a President of the Royal Scottish Society of the Arts. He was a prominent lecturer in chemistry at institutions in Edinburgh, including Edinburgh University and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh veterinary colleges. He also had a large analytical chemical consulting practise.
He was part of a small dynasty of Scottish chemical scientists including his elder half-brother William Macadam, brother Dr. John Macadam and two sons, William Ivison Macadam and Stevenson J. C. G. Macadam and granddaughter Elison A. Macadam.
StevensonMacadam FRSE FIC FCS FRSSA (27 April 1829 – 24 January 1901) was a Scottish scientist, analytical chemist, lecturer, and academic author. He...
Sir Ivison StevensonMacadam KCVO CBE CStJ FRSE FKC (18 July 1894 – 22 December 1974) was the first Director-General of the Royal Institute of International...
including his sons William Macadam, John Macadam and StevensonMacadam, grandsons William Ivison Macadam and Stevenson J. C. G. Macadam and great granddaughter...
38. John Macadam was born at Northbank, Glasgow, Scotland, on 29 May 1827, the son of William Macadam (1783-1853) and Helen, née Stevenson (1803-1857)...
Colonel William Ivison Macadam VD FRSE FSA FIC FCS FRSSA (27 January 1856 – 24 June 1902) Colonel Professor W. Ivison Macadam was a Scottish scientist...
Piazzi Smyth (1858–59) Thomas Stevenson (1859–60) Alexander Bryson (1860–61) Patrick Newbigging (1861–62) StevensonMacadam (1862–64) Charles Cowan (1864–65)...
1721 copy, and had it subjected to chemical testing by StevensonMacadam, a chemist. Macadam reported that the "document [bore] evidence of having been...
Azerbaijan, with a business venture. He also studied chemistry under StevensonMacadam at Edinburgh University, and in 1896 was set for a career in the oil...
Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow University Macquorn Rankine and Dr. StevensonMacadam, who lectured in Chemistry at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh...
novelist, short stories Rosa's District Six, The Writing Circle Patrick MacAdam 1934 2015 Gold Medal Misfits Annick MacAskill poet Shadow Blight Ann-Marie...
apprenticeship with an Edinburgh pharmacy in 1854 and became assistant to Dr StevensonMacadam, lecturer in chemistry to Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh. He made his first...
MD, FRCS, Consulting Surgeon, St Bartholomew's Hospital. Ivison StevensonMacadam, CVO, CBE, Director-General of the Royal Institute of International...
Edinburgh Botanical Society alongside Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie and StevensonMacadam. In the 1870s he moved from Clifton House in Rotherham. He retired...
The stained glass immediately east of the pulpit commemorates Dr StevensonMacadam, an elder in the church. Notable burials and memorials include: William...
Charles Joseph Knight, Traffic Commissioner, South-Eastern Area. Ivison StevensonMacadam, Esq., O.B.E., Secretary, Royal Institute of International Affairs...
Robert Shipboy MacAdam (Irish: Roibeárd Mac Ádhaimh; 1808–1895) was an Irish antiquary, folklorist and linguist and was the most active figure among the...
Alexander Bryson 1863–66 Sir William Turner 1864 David Page 1865–68 StevensonMacadam 1866–68 John Duns 1870–73 Robert Brown 1874–77 David Grieve 1876 John...
C.M.G., O.B.E. Arthur George Linfield, C.V.O., C.B.E. Sir Ivison StevensonMacadam, C.V.O., C B E. Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable Patrick Terence...
Gaelic Society in 1830, and later in the scholarly works of Robert Shipboy MacAdam, John O'Donovan and Eugene O'Curry, and the foundation of the Ossianic...
545 48.06% Darrell Hickox 500 2.81% Deborah Kelly Hawkes 465 2.62% Kevin MacAdam 8,269 46.51% Lawrence MacAulay Egmont Joe McGuire 9,227 50.05% Jeff Sullivan...
Primrose (daughter of Earl of Rosebery, d. 1862) Edward Tufnell (d. 1909) m. 1846 Honoria Mary Macadam (daughter of Col. Macadam Knight of Hanover, d.1877)...
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