Edward William Prevost
Prof Edward William Prevost FRSE FIC (1851–1920) was a 19th-century British chemist, philologist and linguist. In authorship he is known as E. W. Prevost.
Life
He was born in Carlisle in 1851 the son of Col Thomas William Prevost, a Staff Officer in the Pensions Department of the British Army. He was educated at Glenalmond School in Scotland then at Rugby School from 1864 to 1867. He studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg gaining a doctorate (PhD).
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1875. His proposers were Alexander Crum Brown, Sir James Dewar, Philip Kelland and Peter Guthrie Tait.[1]
In 1879 he became Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester. He retired from academia in 1881, aged only 30. Although his father appears to have retired to Edinburgh around 1885, living at 25 Moray Place[2] it is unclear if Edward stayed at the same house. He eventually left society in its wider sense to become a farmer, firstly near Tamworth and later at Elton near Newnham. During this period he concentrated also on writing.
Freemasonry
He was Initiated into Scottish Freemasonry in Lodge Holyrood House (St. Luke's), No.44, (Edinburgh) on 17 January 1878.[3]
Death
He died on 7 October 1920 at Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.
Publications
- The Dialect of Cumberland (1905)
Family
He may be the father of Edward William du Teissier Prevost, born in Edinburgh in 1885.[4]
References
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1885
- ^ A History of the Mason Lodge of Holyrood House (St.Luke's), No.44, holding of the Grand Lodge of Scotland with Roll of Members, 1734-1934, by Robert Strathern Lindsay, W.S., Edinburgh, 1935. Vol.II, p.719.
- ^ "Epsom & Ewell History Explorer". www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
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