Sir Wyndham Rowland Dunstan (1861-1949), was professor of

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and Director of the

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Dunstan was born on 24 May 1861 at

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, where his father, John Dunstan (1797-1874), was Constable. He was educated at

Bedford School :''Bedford School is not to be confused with Bedford Girls' School, Bedford High School, Bedford Modern School, Old Bedford School in Bedford, Texas or Bedford Academy in Bedford, Nova Scotia.'' Bedford School is a public school (English indep ...

before becoming an assistant to

Theophilus Redwood Theophilus Redwood (9 April 1806 – 5 March 1892) was a Welsh pharmacist who was one of the founding members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. He was born in Boverton, Llantwit Major. In 1820 he was apprenticed to his brother- ...

, Professor of Chemistry at the

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. In 1884, Dunstan was appointed as Demonstrator in the University Laboratories at the

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and, in 1885, as University Lecturer in Chemistry. In 1886, he succeeded Redwood as Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and, in 1903, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Director of the

in London. He acted as President of the International Association of Tropical Agriculture and was a Member of the Advisory Committee for Tropical Agriculture."DUNSTAN, Wyndham Rowland" (1907). Who's Who, vol. 59: p. 526 In 1886, he married Emilie Fordyce Maclean. After she died in 1893, he married Violet Mary Claudia Hanbury-Tracy (1876-1963), daughter of

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, in 1900. He died on 20 April 1949.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dunstan, Wyndham People educated at Bedford School 1861 births 1949 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Fellows of the Chemical Society

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