32 Facts About Stevenson Macadam

Stevenson Macadam was a founding member of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and a founding member of the Society of Chemical Industry.

Stevenson Macadam was a President of the Royal Scottish Society of the Arts.

Stevenson Macadam was a prominent lecturer in chemistry at institutions in Edinburgh, including Edinburgh University and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh veterinary colleges.

Stevenson Macadam was born at North Bank in Glasgow on 27 April 1829, one of four sons and four daughters.

Stevenson Macadam married Jessie Andrew Ivison on 23 April 1855 in Neilston, Renfrew, Scotland.

Stevenson Macadam's father William Macadam was a Burgess and a Bailie [magistrate] of Glasgow.

Stevenson Macadam was a third generation Burgess of a family of at least ten Burgesses and Guild brothers of Glasgow.

Stevenson Macadam was the second child of William Stevenson and Helen Grindlay.

Stevenson Macadam died on 20 January 1857 at 6 Kelvinhaugh Street, Glasgow, and was buried with her husband in Glasgow Cathedral Old Burial Ground in the Macadam tomb.

Stevenson Macadam studied at the Glasgow Mechanics Institution; College of Science and Arts.

Stevenson Macadam received his first tuition at the Mechanics Institution under his elder brother John Macadam after whom the Macadamia nut was later named.

John Stevenson Macadam then became assistant to Dr George Wilson, Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine from 1846 to 1847.

Stevenson Macadam then became Dr George Wilson's assistant, in his brother's stead, at the University of Edinburgh and at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1847 to 1855.

In 1850 Dr Stevenson Macadam began lecturing in the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and became a professor there.

Stevenson Macadam did this from quarters on Princes Street, Edinburgh.

In 1855, Dr Stevenson Macadam was appointed Lecturer on Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh Medical School and the University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine after Dr George Wilson was appointed Regius Professor of Technology at Edinburgh University although Dr Wilson retained his rooms at Surgeons Hall.

Dr Stevenson Macadam was a successful lecturer and his classes were very well attended and "were a standing memorial" to his power of teaching in the view of The Scotsman.

Subsequently, from 1873, Dr Stevenson Macadam lectured at the "New Veterinary College" housed in Gayfield House, following its foundation by William Williams in 1873.

Dr Stevenson Macadam was one of the original six founders.

Dr Stevenson Macadam remained on the staff of the New Veterinary College until it moved to its newly built campus at Elm Row, Edinburgh in 1883 when he resigned in favour of his son Professor Ivison Stevenson Macadam.

Stevenson Macadam had a large analytical chemical consulting practice and was sought after for expertise in his field.

Stevenson Macadam acted as Scientific Advisor to the Northern Lighthouse Board of Scotland.

Stevenson Macadam was the author of many papers on scientific subjects such as water supply, drainage and on chemistry to the arts and manufacturing.

Stevenson Macadam lived from the late 1860s at Brighton House, 11 East Brighton Crescent in Portobello, Edinburgh, where he died, having previously lived at the addresses of the places of his children's births at their birth dates below.

Dr Stevenson Macadam had been a member of the Liberal Party but later became a Unionist.

Stevenson Macadam was a member of The Church of Scotland and was a church elder at Duddingston Kirk.

Stevenson Macadam helped found and build St James's Church, at Rosefield Place, Portobello.

Stevenson Macadam was active in outdoor and country sports while leading a busy professional life.

Stevenson Macadam was President of the Edinburgh Angling Club at the time of his death.

Stevenson Macadam was a regular follower of the Dumfriesshire Otter Hounds.

Stevenson Macadam married Jessie Andrew Ivison in Renfrew in 1855.

Stevenson Macadam is buried in Portobello Cemetery in eastern Edinburgh.