Background
MARSDEN R, Sydney was born in 1856 in Sheffield. Son of late Robert Marsden, Steel Manufacturer.
MARSDEN R, Sydney was born in 1856 in Sheffield. Son of late Robert Marsden, Steel Manufacturer.
Universities of Edinburgh, Gottingen, Berlin, and Paris. F.R.S, Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, F. Institute Chemistry, et cetera Doctor of Medicine; Diploma in Public Health (Edinburgh et cetera).
President, Royal Medical Society, 1881. Thrice President Medical Society, and President Literature and Science Society, Birkenhead. Lecture on Chemistry University College Bristol, 1879.
Has received grants for original research from Government Research Fund, the Royal and Chemistry
Societies of London, and has been called to give evidence before several Royal Commissions and Select Parliamentary Committees. Instructor and Lecturer on Meat Diseases, et cetera, to Officers of Army Service Corps since 1898.
Mr. Marsden was the first person to produce the diamond artificially.
Cb.M., Medical Officer of Health for Birkenhead.