William Mair (chemist)

William Mair FRSE FCS (1868-1948) was a Scottish pharmacist and manufacturing chemist.

He was born in Osborne Place in Dundee in 1868, the son of Thomas Mair a builder.

[1] Around 1890 he is working in the pharmacy of Dundee Royal Infirmary.

He was the main Scottish representative to the London chemical company Fletcher Fletcher & Co.[2] In 1931 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the American Pharmaceutical Association.

His proposers were Ralph Stockman, James Pickering Kendall, Hugh Ferguson Watson, Robert Taylor Skinner and George Merson.