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PROF. A. HUMBOLDT SEXTON died on June 21, at Jersey, at the age of seventy-eight years, after a long illness. He was the eldest son of Dr. George Sexton, who was well known in his time as a lecturer on spiritualism and later as a Christian apologist, and he was educated at private schools and the Royal School of Mines. He obtained a Royal Exhibition tenable at the Royal College of Science, Ireland, in 1871. In 1873 he became assayer to the Mining Company of Ireland, and in the following year was appointed chemist to the Broughton Copper Works.
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Prof. A. Humboldt Sexton. Nature 130, 194–195 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130194b0
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