Brande

Brande, WILLIAM THOMAS, chemist, born in London in 1788, was apprenticed to his brother, an apothecary, and studied chemistry at St George's Hospital. His first paper was read before the Royal Society in 1805, and he was elected a Fellow in 1809, having commenced lecturing on chemistry and physics the year before. In 1812 he was appointed professor of Chemistry to the Apothecaries' Company, and in 1813 succeeded Davy at the Royal Institution, where he was assisted by Faraday. He resigned in 1854, and was head of the coinage department of the Royal Mint until his death, 11th February 1866. He was a D.C.L. of Oxford, and published a Manual of Chemistry (1819; 6th ed. 1848), a Dictionary of Materia Medica (1839), and a Dictionary of Science and Art (1842; new ed. 1875).