Patrick Linstead
Sir Reginald Patrick Linstead (28 August 1902 – 22
Professor
September 1966) was an English chemist.[2]
Sir Patrick Linstead
CBE FRS
Background
Patrick Linstead was born on 28 August 1902 in
Southgate, London, the second son of Edward Flatman
Linstead, advertising manager for Burroughs
Wellcome, and Florence Evelyn, née Hester.[3] After
primary education in Southgate, Linstead attended the
City of London School from the age of 11 to 17, where
the science master, George H J Adlam,[4] was a
considerable influence. He joined Imperial College in
1920, and graduated three years later with first class
honours, before continuing to a PhD in Sir Jocelyn
Thorpe's group.[3]
Career 1945 portrait by Walter Stoneman
Born Reginald Patrick Linstead
In 1929, Linstead was appointed as a demonstrator at
28 August 1902
Imperial, and later lecturer. In the following decade, he
London, England
was awarded a DSc and three medals. In 1938 he was
appointed Professor Chemistry at the University of Died 22 September 1966 (aged 64)
Sheffield. London, England
Alma mater Imperial College London
In their obituary of Linstead,[1] Barton, Rydon and
Spouses Aileen Rowland
Elvidge wrote that "Linstead's professional life divides
(m. 1929; died 1938)
itself conveniently into found periods", which they go
Marjorie Walters (m. 1942)
on to describe in detail:
Children Hilary Linstead
The First Period at Imperial College, 1920–
1938 Awards Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
The Years in Between, 1938–1949 Scientific career
The Second Period at Imperial College,
Institutions University of Sheffield
1949–1954
The Years as Rector, 1955–1966 Harvard University
Linstead Hall at Imperial College is named in his honour.[5] He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society
in 1940.[1] He was also a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and was knighted in
1959.
Patrick Linstead can be heard in a speech at the Mansion House dinner celebrating the 50th anniversary
of the College in 1957.[6]
Personal life and death
In 1929, Linstead married Aileen Edith Ellis Rowland.[3] She died in 1938, after giving birth to their first
child, Hilary. She married Leon Max Stemler of Newcastle, New South Wales at Holy Trinity Church,
South Kensington in 1962,[7] and moved to Australia with her husband.
His second marriage was in Aberdare on 11 July 1942,[8] to Marjorie Walters, a DPhil from Somerville
College, Oxford.[9] They had no children. Lady Linstead died at their Blockley home in Gloucestershire
on 2 November 1987. They also had one at 170 Queens Gate, SW7, a short walk from Imperial College.
Sir Patrick Linstead died from a heart attack on 22 September 1966 at St George's Hospital, which was
then on the site of the present Lanesborough Hotel at Hyde Park Corner.[3] A memorial service was held
on 25 October at Holy Trinity Brompton.
References
1. Barton, D. H. R.; Rydon, H. N.; Elvidge, J. A. (1968). "Reginald Patrick Linstead 1902-1966".
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 14: 308. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1968.0014
([Link]
2. Reginald Patrick Linstead ([Link]
m), HowStuffWorks.
3. Barrett, A. G. M.; Barton, D. H. R. (2004). "Linstead, Sir (Reginald) Patrick (1902–1966),
organic chemist and educationist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.).
Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34549 ([Link]
nb%2F34549). (Subscription or UK public library membership ([Link]
subscribe#public) required.)
4. Fowles, G (1946). "Mr. G. H. J. Adlam, O.B.E.". Nature. 158: 408.
5. Linstead Hall ([Link] Imperial College London
6. "Sir Patrick Linstead speaking during Imperial's 50th birthday year" ([Link]
uk/imedia/content/view/93/sir-patrick-linstead-speaking-during-imperials-50th-birthday-year).
Imperial College London, Media library. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
7. "Marriages", The Times, no. 55450, p. 12, 23 July 1962
8. "Marriages", The Times, no. 49297, p. 1, 25 July 1942
9. "Memories and history of the Aberdare County Grammar School for Girls 1913 to 1978" (htt
p://[Link]/AGGS2/[Link]?var1=[Link]
monies/Cert61/Lady_Linstead.html). The Aberdare Girls' Grammar School. Retrieved 7 May
2020.
External links
Sir Patrick Linstead — video and podcast archive ([Link]
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