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DANIEL RANKIN STEUART, late chief chemist to the Broxburn Oil Co., Ltd., died at his residence, Blackhall, Edinburgh, on August 1. He was a well-known figure in scientific circles in the east of Scotland, and was a recognised authority on the chemistry and. technology of shale oil and petroleum. Born at Bog-side, Lanarkshire, in 1848, he studied botany and geology in his early youth, and, for reasons of health, spent some ten years in the open-air pursuits of gardening and farming; he received his chemical training at the University of Edinburgh under Crum Brown, at Glasgow under Dittmar, and finally at Munich. His connexion with the shale oil industry, destined to be a lifelong one, began about 1875, when he became a laboratory assistant to the late Sir George Beilby at the Oakbank Oil Works. In 1877 he was appointed chief chemist to the Broxburn Company, and retired from that post five years ago.
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FINDLATER, R. Mr. D. R. Steuart. Nature 116, 368–369 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116368b0
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