Sir Samuel Hall Professor of Chemistry

The Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry is the named Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester, established through an endowment of £36,000 in 1913 by the Hall family.[1] This chair has been occupied by the following chemists:

• 2014- David Alan Leigh[2] FRS
• 2005 - 2014 Ian Hillier
• 1947-1954 Sir Ewart Jones[3] FRS
• 1944-1947 Sir Edmund Hirst[4] FRS
• 1938-1944 Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd[5] FRS
• 1935-1938 Sir Ian Heilbron[6] FRS
• 1922-1935 Arthur Lapworth[7] FRS

References

1. Portrait of a University, 1851-1951: To Commemorate the Centenary of Manchester University, Henry Buckley Charlton, Manchester University Press, 1951.
2. "LEIGH, Prof. David Alan". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. Jones, J. H. (2003). "Sir Ewart Ray Herbert Jones 16 March 1911 - 7 May 2002 Elected FRS 1950". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 49: 263. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2003.0015. JSTOR 3650225.
4. Robinson, R. (1947). "Arthur Lapworth. 1872-1941". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 5 (15): 554. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1947.0018.
5. Brown, D. M.; Kornberg, H. (2000). "Alexander Robertus Todd, O.M., Baron Todd of Trumpington. 2 October 1907 -- 10 January 1997: Elected F.R.S. 1942". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 46: 515. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0099.
6. Alan Cook (2004). "Heilbron, Sir Ian Morris [formerly Isidor Morris]". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33799.
7. Robinson, R. (1947). "Arthur Lapworth. 1872-1941". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 5 (15): 554. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1947.0018.