Thomas Graham
Born 21 December 1805
Died 16 September 1869
Active: 1855 - 1869
Country of birth and death: Great Britain
Master of the mint, chemist
Born Glasgow. Professor of Chemistry at University College, London. Founder and President of Chemical Society London. Contributed important work on laws of diffusion. Government advisor.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume II, 1904 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as 'Master of the Mint, London, under Queen Victoria'. Struck a 'Pattern Half-sovereign, or Trial Piece in Palladium-Hydrogen': see Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 308. Forrer gives 'Numismatic Chronicle' (1865), p. 78, and Spink and Son, 'Catalogue of Montagu's Collection', p. 141, as sources.
Listed in Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as Master of the Royal Mint, London, from April 1855 to September 1869. See vol. 7, (1923), p. 388. Forrer gives R. Angus Smith, 'Life and Works of Thomas Graham', ed. by J. J. Coleman, Glasgow, 1884, as a source.
Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Michael Stanley, ‘Graham, Thomas (1805–1869)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11224, accessed 12 May 2009]
Citing this record
'Thomas Graham', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1238587408, accessed 09 Jul 2020]
