Thomas Easterfield
Sir Thomas Hill Easterfield KBE (4 March 1866 – 1 March 1949) was a New Zealand chemist and university professor. He was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, on 4 March 1866.
Thomas Hill Easterfield c. 1926.
Easterfield was one of the four founding professors at Victoria University College in Wellington and director of the Cawthron Institute in Nelson from 1919 to 1933.[1]
His wife, Anna Maria Kunigunda Easterfield, was from Bavaria and their daughter Dr Helen Deem, was known for her work in child health and welfare.[1]
In 1935, Easterfield was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[2] He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1938 King's Birthday Honours.[3]
References
- Bryder, Linda. (2003). A voice for mothers : the Plunket Society and infant welfare, 1907-2000. Royal New Zealand Plunket Society. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press. p. 111. ISBN 1-4237-1969-7. OCLC 61335146.
- "Official jubilee medals". Evening Post. 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
- "No. 34518". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 June 1938. p. 3701.
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- Davis, Brian R. "Thomas Hill Easterfield". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- Marsden, E. (1952). "Obituary notices: Thomas Hill Easterfield, 1866–1949". Journal of the Chemical Society: 1557–1560. doi:10.1039/JR9520001557. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- Askew, H. O. (1950). "OBITUARY Thomas Hill Easterfield (1866–1949)". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 78: 381–383. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- Miller, David (30 April 1949). "Sir Thomas Hill Easterfield, K.B.E". Nature. 163 (4148): 669. Bibcode:1949Natur.163..669M. doi:10.1038/163669a0.
- Barrowman, Rachel (1999). Victoria University of Wellington 1899 ~ 1999 A History. Wellington: Victoria University Press. pp. 15–17.
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