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GEORGE MANLEY HOPWOOD, F.O.S., F.I.O. 



Died 23rd July, 1883. 



George Manley Hopwood was born at Plymouth in 1846. 

 While still very young he lost both his parents, and was taken 

 under the care of a distant relative in Edinburgh ; she and her 

 husband, the Rev. Mr. Rowbottorn, adopting him and treating him 

 with the utmost kindness. His education was obtained at the well- 

 known school — the Edinburgh Academy, and on its completion he 

 was apprenticed to a druggist of Edinburgh. Here his taste for 

 chemistry received some little encouragement, and he devoted 

 himself to the study of the science. As a step towards the 

 prosecution of chemistry as the business of his life, he engaged as 

 assistant to Dr. Stephenson Macadam, of the Surgeons' Hall, 

 Edinburgh, brother of one of the founders of this society. Here he 

 worked at analyses for commercial purposes, and became expert in 

 the chemistry of manures and agricultural products. When about 

 twenty years of age he joined Dr. Angus Smith, F.R.S., of 

 Manchester, where he not only gained a further insight into general 

 analytical work, but also took part in some of Dr. Smith's researches 

 on the cattle plague, and the air of mines. He rose to the position 

 of chief assistant in Dr. Smith's laboratory. He then associated 

 himself with Mr. Edward Hunt, B.A., of Manchester, in researches 

 for technical purposes, especially on the nature of dyes. He was 

 apparently just entering on a department of inquiry in which he 

 might have won a distinguished name, when failing health forced 

 him to leave England. He landed in Melbourne in 1873, and spent 

 some time in recruiting his greatly weakened constitution. The 

 Victorian climate suited him so well that he determined to stay here, 

 and obtained a position in the Mining Department, there being 

 then no opening in his own profession. But ere long he received an 

 appointment as assistant in the Assay Department of the Mint ; he 

 was also made assistant to Mr. Geo. Foord, for the examination of 

 gas for the City of Melbourne. He was at various times employed 

 by the Government for the Department of Agriculture, and was one 

 of the chemical experts at the Melbourne International Exhibition. 



He died at Hawthorn on 23rd July, 1883. Mr. George Foord 

 thus speaks of him: — " He was characterised by patient and modest 

 industry, watchful attention, and earnest zeal. He had accumulated 

 a considerable store of special knowledge in connection with 

 industrial and commercial chemistry, and excelled in the neatness 

 and method of his work." 



