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John Attfield – Professor of Practical Chemistry at the School of Pharmacy 1862–1896

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Portrait in oils of John Attfield (1835–1911), FRS, Professor of Practical Chemistry at the Society’s School of Pharmacy 1862–1896.
Painted by Ebenezer Downard (1830–1894), circa 1872 Framed.
Attfield’s ‘Introduction to Pharmaceutical Chemistry’, published in 1867, went through 19 editions during his lifetime. Attfield was appointed one of the three editors of the British Pharmacopoeia in 1885.