David Orme Masson

Sir David Orme Masson KBE FRS (13 January 1858 – 10 August 1937) was a scientist born in England who emigrated to Australia to become Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne. Masson was born in Hampstead (near London), the only son and second child of David Mather Masson, Professor of English Literature at University College, London and his wife, Emily Rosaline née Orme. D. M. Masson became Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh in 1865; D. O. Masson was educated at Oliphant's School in Edinburgh (1865–68), the Edinburgh Academy and then at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A. 1877. and studied studied chemistry under Crum Brown (B.Sc. 1880). Masson studied under...