William Mair (chemist) explained

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).

Notes and References

1. Dundee Post Office Directory 1868
2. Web site: Fletcher, Fletcher and Co - Graces Guide.
3. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X.
4. The Chemist and Druggist (periodical) vol 95