James Campbell Brown

James Campbell Brown (31 January 1843 – 14 March 1910) was a chemist and professor who taught at Liverpool.

Brown was educated at the Old Aberdeen Gymnasium under Dr Alexander Anderson (1808-1884) and then at the Marischal College.

In 1863 he joined the Royal College of Chemistry, London, studying under John Tyndall, August Wilhelm von Hofmann and others.

He taught chemistry at Aberdeen and then went to lecture at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary School of Medicine.

[2] His wife Ellen died in 1923 and she had been instructed by her husband to set aside from the value of his estate, money for the establishment of a chair in chemistry at the University of Liverpool after her death.