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Royal School of Mines under Professors Tyndall, Huxley, Smythe and 
Etheridge in 1863-5. He was assistant to Dr. E. Frankland at the 
Royal College of Chemistry in Oxford Street, and followed Professor 
Hoffman to the Berlin University in 1866, as his assistant 
In 1867 he came to Burton as Chemist to Messrs. Bass and Co., 
and in 1885 became Head Brewer and Chemist. 
He was an original Member of the Society of Chemical Industry 
and of the Institute of Chemistry, served on the Councils of both 
these Societies, and also on that of the Chemical Society. 
In 1884 he was awarded the Longstaffe medal of the Chemical 
Society and elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1885. He was 
an honorary Member of the Institute of Brewing. For many years 
he was the acknowledged Scientific head of the Brewing Industry, 
and the discoveries he made over 35 years ago about the transformation 
of Starch in the mashtun, although since investigated by numbers of 
of enthusiastic workers, still provide the explanation of the chief 
operation in the process of Brewing. 
This Society had the advantage of his advice and support from 
its inauguration, and all who ever had the pleasure of accompanying 
him on excursions will recall his genial kindly manner and clear 
explanation of the natural phenomena observed. 
He was in addition to being a distinguished chemist and 
technologist, a first-class geologist and mineralogist,and no man had 
a more thorough knowledge of the facts or a more accurate appreciation 
of the principles, which formed the sciences in which he was interested. 
He read papers at our meetings on; 
“ Crystals,’ “Gypsum,” and “The Dales of Derbyshire.” 
He died at Burton on January 8th, 1907, aged 65. 
