Background
BURKE, John Benjamin Butler was born on November 4, 1873. Son of late John Burke, Doctor of Medicine, and Victoria, only child of late Benjamin Butler of Manila, and g.-son of late Joseph Burke, J. P., of Ower, Company Galway.
BURKE, John Benjamin Butler was born on November 4, 1873. Son of late John Burke, Doctor of Medicine, and Victoria, only child of late Benjamin Butler of Manila, and g.-son of late Joseph Burke, J. P., of Ower, Company Galway.
Studied at Trinity College Dublin (Scholar, Senior Moderator, and Gold Medallist). Trinity College, Cambridge (Degree for Research as an advanced student, 1900). Master of Arts (Cambridge and Dublin).
Formerly Lecturer Mason College, Birmingham. and Berkeley Fellow, Owens College, Manchester. Lectured extensively throughout the United Kingdom on his own special work on artificial cells, 1905-1906.
Clubs : Royal Societies, Authors’.