A. W. Duncan

Arthur William Duncan (1856 – 23 July 1946) was an English-Australian analytical chemist and vegetarianism activist.

Career

Duncan was born in Hull, Yorkshire. He became a vegetarian as a young man through reading the work of T. L. Nichols. He contacted R. Bailey Walker and joined the Vegetarian Society in 1877. He worked as an analytical chemist in Manchester and for James Woolley, Sons and Co., manufacture chemists. He was also a Fellow of the Chemical Society. It was republished as The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by the Vegetarian Society in 1905. Charles W. Forward noted that Duncan had given "valuable aid to the Vegetarian Society in connection with the chemistry of food, and has contributed many useful essays and papers on the subject". He later moved to New South Wales, Australia but remained in contact with vegetarians in England and was an officer for the Vegetarian Society in 1935. He married Annie Margaret Allison in 1890. His wife died in 1947.

Selected publications