Three chairs at theUniversity of Liverpool were endowed by local industrialistSir John Brunner, 1st Baronet: theBrunner Professorship of Economic Science, theBrunner Professorship of Egyptology, and theBrunner Professorship of Physical Chemistry.
TheBrunner Professorship of Economic Science is a chair ineconomics. It was established in 1891 byJohn Tomlinson Brunner, the chemical industrialist andLiberal MP forNorthwich. Brunner's son Sidney had been a student at University College Liverpool at the time of his death in 1890.[1] After correspondence withWillam Rathbone,[2] Brunner founded the chair in memory of both his son and his father, the Swiss-born Unitarian schoolmaster John Brunner (born 1800).[1]