he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London and in 1875 he was granted an honorary PhD by Leiden University, the Netherlands. See also History of the periodic table References Fullerian Professorships 1829 births 1921 deaths People from Southwark 19th-century British chemists Fellows of the Royal Society Academics of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford Waynflete Professors of Chemistry People involved with the periodic table 20th-century British chemists