Archibald Liversidge
1846–1927
Chemist and scientific administrator. Educated at the Royal School of Mines, the Royal College of Chemistry, and Christ’s College, Cambridge. Reader in geology and assistant in the laboratory, University of Sydney, 1872; professor of geology and mineralogy, 1874; first dean of the faculty of science, 1879–1907. Founded a school of mines at the university of Sydney, 1892. After retirement returned to London; vice-president of the Chemical Society, London, 1910–13. An important figure in the Royal Society of New South Wales, and in 1888, founder of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. FRS 1882.
Source
Aust. dict. biog.
Bibliography
Aust. dict. biog.: Australian dictionary of biography. Edited by Douglas Pike et al. 14 vols. [Melbourne]: Melbourne University Press. London and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1966–96.
