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process Dunlop, of St. Rollox, and the Scotch 

 lixiviating vat Shanks employed to erect 

 Gossage's condensers and sulphur recovery 

 plant Came to St. Helens to erect plant at 

 Gamble and Crosfield's works When Gamble 

 retired from the firm Shanks was made a 

 partner Shanks' carbonate of soda patent, 

 1841 When John Brock came to Crosfield's 

 in 1857 he found the process at work Baron 

 Seckcndorff's plants for making sulphuric acid 

 tried by Shanks An instance of his good 

 nature Shanks' chlorine process, 1858, 

 awarded a medal by jury of the International 

 Exhibition, 1862 Hofmann's opinion of it 

 Peligot and Gentele's process Patent for 

 caustic soda and caustic potash, 1863 Inven- 

 tion of " Shanks' " vats Clement Desorme's 

 process Gundelach, of Mannheim, inventor of 

 similar vat to " Shanks' ' vats Professor 

 Buff, of Giessen, indicated the process Shanks 

 applied This not known by Professors Will 

 and Kopp Shanks did not patent his vat 

 Lunge's and Hofmann's remarks on these vats 

 Simon Crosfield and John Brock Shanks 

 a strict disciplinarian, but generous and 

 sympathetic His genial, kindly humour 

 Interest in popular education The St. Helens 

 Mechanics' Institute Associated with Watson 

 and Wilson, and the brothers Newton and 

 Henry Lacey James Shanks, a member of 

 Hugh Stowell Brown's Baptist Church, 

 Liverpool One of Brown's executors His 

 opposition to church rates A Radical Twice 



