Mason Science College

Edmund Street elevation of the college.

Mason College visible through the wreck of the original Birmingham Central Free Library, burned down in 1879

Mason Science College was founded by Josiah Mason in 1875 and its building in Edmund Street, Birmingham, England, was opened by Thomas Henry Huxley on 1 October 1880. In 1900 it was incorporated into the new University of Birmingham.

Notable alumni include:

• Francis William Aston, British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister.^[1]
• Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister.^[2]
• Sir Henry Fowler, locomotive engineer.
• C.W. Hobley, pioneering colonial administrator in Kenya.
• Henry Eliot Howard, ornithologist
• Constance Naden, Poet & Philosopher.
• John Berry Haycraft discovered an anticoagulant created by the leech, which he named hirudin.

The original Victorian Neo-Gothic building was demolished in 1962, along with the original Central Public Library and the Birmingham and Midland Institute, as part of the redevelopment within the inner ring road. The current Central Library stands on the site of the old college.

References

1. ^ K. Feiling, The Life of Neville Chamberlain (London, 1970), 11-12
2. ^ K. Feiling, The Life of Neville Chamberlain (London, 1970), 11

Sources

• Ordnance Survey 1st Edition Map, 1890

Coordinates: 52°28′48″N 1°54′18″W / 52.4800°N 1.9051°W / 52.4800; -1.9051

External links

• Huxley's inauguration speech
• Lists of students at Mason Science College
• 1960s photograph

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