Arthur aikin biography

Arthur Aikin (1773-1854)

1807 Founding member of the Geological Society

1820 Became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.^[1]

1843-1845 President of the Chemical Society.

Arthur aikin biography

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1855 Obituary ^[3]

MR. ARTHUR AIKIN was born on the 19th May 1773, at Warrington, in Lancashire, where his Grandfather, the Rev. John Aikin, D.D., had long filled, with distinguished ability, the offices first of classical, and afterwards of divinity tutor, in Warrington Academy, an institution founded by Presbyterian Dissenters, and celebrated for the eminent men who filled its chairs.

His Father, the late Mr. John Aikin, M.D., afterwards known as the author of many valuable works in biography, criticism, general literature, and most popularly by his ‘Evenings at Home’ and other books for the young, and especially by his admirable ‘Letters to a Son,’ who was then practising professionally in the town.

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