William Mattieu Williams
1820–92
Chemist, science educator, and writer. Apprenticed as a mathematical and optical instrument maker in Lambeth, 1837–41. Studied at London Mechanics’ Institution and Edinburgh University. Industrial chemist in Birmingham, Caergwrle in Wales, and Sheffield. Lectured on science in Edinburgh, Birmingham, and London. Involved in the founding of the Birkbeck School in 1848. Headmaster, Williams Secular School, Edinburgh, 1848–54.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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