Frederick Mason Brewer CBE FRIC (1903 – 11 February 1963) was an English chemist.
[1] He was the son of Frederick Charles Brewer and Ellen Maria Owen, both school teachers.
Brewer studied chemistry at Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1920, having received an open scholarship, and subsequently gained a first class degree.
[2] He was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and was awarded the honour of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1963.
However, a week after collecting his CBE at Buckingham Palace, at the age of 60, he died at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.