John Benjamin Butler Burke

[athel_cb]

John Benjamin Butler Burke, born in 1873, was a physicist, apparently of Irish origin, who worked in Birmingham and Manchester around 1900. He is only remembered today (if at all) for his book The Origin of Life: its Physical Basis and Definition, published in 1906. I am interested in him for professional rather than family reasons (I'm not related to him as far as I know). Anyway, I've been trying to discover when he died, but I've drawn a complete blank. Does anyone have an idea?

[John Falvey]

He died in London on 14th January 1946: https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?givenname=john%20benjamin&surname=burke&record_country=England&count=20

Name:
John Benjamin Butler Burke
Event Type: Probate
Event Date: 1 Oct 1947
Event Place: London, England, United Kingdom
Event Place: London, United Kingdom
Beneficiary's Name: Isabella Butler Burke
Second Beneficiary's Name: Victoria Miaithe

[PaulineJ]

Unless it's a reprint, there's a book in 1931. (so at or after that date?)
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dDVuAAAAIAAJ&source=gbs_book_similarbooks

[athel_cb]

He died in London on 14th January 1946: https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?givenname=john%20benjamin&surname=burke&record_country=England&count=20

Name:
John Benjamin Butler Burke
Event Type: Probate
Event Date: 1 Oct 1947
Event Place: London, England, United Kingdom
Event Place: London, United Kingdom
Beneficiary's Name: Isabella Butler Burke
Second Beneficiary's Name: Victoria Miaithe

That was quick! Many thanks.

[athel_cb]

Unless it's a reprint, there's a book in 1931. (so at or after that date?)
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dDVuAAAAIAAJ&source=gbs_book_similarbooks

From the little I can discern from the link that does appear to be a different book -- not just a new edition of the 1906 book. I'll try to track it down. Thanks.

[hallmark]

A quick google for  "John Benjamin Butler Burke"  shows

The Burkes of Ower were descended from a younger son of the Burkes of Clanricarde in the 15th century. By the 16th century they owned a large estate in the Castlehacket and Cahermorris localities in the barony of Clare, county Galway, most of which was confiscated in the 17th century. The Burkes managed to retain Ower in the parish of Killursa and continued to reside there until the early 20th century. They also held some land just across the county border at Moyne in the parish of Shrule, barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo. In the 1870s William Joseph Burke owned 666 acres in county Galway and 752 acres in county Mayo. The male line died out with his death in 1895 but he was succeeded by his daughter, Margaret Mary, who married Luke Alexander Teeling. William Joseph Burke had married Barbara Ellen Turner, daughter of Thomas Blake Turner MD, of St John's Abbey, Tuam, county Galway. Property at Moyne in the barony of Kilmaine, belonging to this family was sold in the Landed Estates Court in November 1868, It was bought by Oliver J. Burke. In December 1876 the sale of the estate (288 acres) of members of the Turner family, William Joseph Burke and Robert Henry in the barony of Bunratty Upper, county Clare, was advertised. Burke family members included the mathematician Francis Burke, the scientist John Benjamin Butler Burke and the author Oliver Burke.

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=952

[rosie99]

He died in London on 14th January 1946: https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?givenname=john%20benjamin&surname=burke&record_country=England&count=20

Name:
John Benjamin Butler Burke
Event Type: Probate
Event Date: 1 Oct 1947
Event Place: London, England, United Kingdom
Event Place: London, United Kingdom
Beneficiary's Name: Isabella Butler Burke
Second Beneficiary's Name: Victoria Miaithe

 

Probate index states he died at Lockerbie, you would need to see the will for beneficiaries as the two people named above were named on the index but not as beneficiaries

[BallyaltikilliganG]

Do know all this see https://prabook.com/web/john.burke/731786
BURKE, John Benjamin Butler was a British lecturer.
Background
BURKE, John Benjamin Butler was born on November 4, 1873. Son of late John Burke, Doctor of Medicine, and Victoria, only child of late Benjamin Butler of Manila, and g.-son of late Joseph Burke, J. P., of Ower, Company Galway.
Education
Studied at Trinity College Dublin (Scholar, Senior Moderator, and Gold Medallist). Trinity College, Cambridge (Degree for Research as an advanced student, 1900). Master of Arts (Cambridge and Dublin).
Career
Formerly Lecturer Mason College, Birmingham. and Berkeley Fellow, Owens College, Manchester. Lectured extensively throughout the United Kingdom on his own special work on artificial cells, 1905-1906.
Membership
Clubs : Royal Societies, Authors’.
Connections
father:
John Burke
mother:
Victoria
 the next step would be articles  etcin hisrtorical learned periodicals eg jstor
or perhaps in the history of artificial skin

perhaps a major medical library
good luck