George Downing Liveing
1827–1924
Chemist. Fellow, St John’s College, Cambridge, 1853–60 and 1880–1924; president, 1911–24. Professor of chemistry, Staff and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1860. Professor of chemistry, Cambridge University, 1861–1908. FRS 1879.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
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Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
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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