Brunner Chair of Economic Science

The Brunner Chair of Economic Science is a professorship in economics at the University of Liverpool. It was established in 1891 by John Tomlinson Brunner, the chemical industrialist and Liberal MP for Northwich. Brunner's son Sidney had been a student at University College Liverpool at the time of his death in 1890. After correspondence with Willam Rathbone, Brunner founded the chair in memory of both his son and his father, the Swiss-born Unitarian schoolmaster John Brunner (born 1800).