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Randal Thomas Mowbray Rawdon Berkeley

1865 - 1942

Born

31 January 1865

Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium, Europe

Died

15/01/1942

Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England

Nationality
British
Gender
Male
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
07/05/1908
Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
43
Fields of Interest
Physical chemistry
Occupation
Physical chemist
Relationships
Parents: George Lennox Rawdon Berkeley (1827–1888) and his Cécile (d. 1914), daughter of Edward Drummond, count of Melfort, in the French nobility, and divorced wife of Admiral Sir F. B. R. Pellew (1789–1861). Spouse: 1) Kate (d. 1898), daughter of William Brand, a landowner, and widow of Arthur Jackson, a composer and teacher at the Royal Academy of Music (1887) 2) Mrs Mary Emlen Lloyd (d. 1975), daughter of John Lowell of Boston, Massachusetts (1924) Hereditary titles: Assumed title of Earl of Berkeley (1888) and established his right to the peerage (1891).