NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Keir, James, 1735-1820 NRA: Keir, James (1735-1820) Chemist DNB: Keir, James (1735–1820), chemist and industrialist LBT ID: JaKeir1820 VIAF ID: 26928974 LOC ID: nr92029182 | B/BAP: 1735-09-29 DIED: 1820-10-11 |
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Educated at Edinburgh University, he was an industrial chemist at Birmingham, poet,
friend of Erasmus Darwin, and biographer of Thomas Day. | |