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WILLIAM  MARTINDALE— PHARMACIST. 
By  E.  H.  Gane. 
By  the  death  of  William  Martindale,  which  occurred  at  his  home 
in  London,  in  February  last,  pharmacy  has  lost  one  of  its  leading 
exponents. 
William  Martindale  was  born  in  1840,  near  Carlisle,  in  which  city 
he  received  his  early  education  and  served  his  apprenticeship  to  the 
drug  business  with  the  late  Mr.  Andrew  Thompson.  In  1862  he 
went  to  London  and,  after  attending  a  course  of  lectures  at  the 
School  cf  Pharmacy  in  Bloomsbury  Square  and  qualifying  as  a 
pharmaceutical  chemist,  he  became  an  assistant  in  the  old-estab- 
lished house  of  Thomas  Morson  &  Son,  of  Southampton  Row, 
This  firm  he  left  in  1868  to  take  up  an  appointment  as  dispenser 
and  teacher  of  pharmacy  at  University  College  Hospital.  In  1872 
he  was  appointed  one  of  the  Board  of  Examiners  to  the  Pharma- 
ceutical Society  of  Great  Britain,  retaining  this  appointment  until 
1882. 
The  most  important  part  of  his  career  commenced  in  1883,  when 
he  took  over  the  retail  store  of  Messrs.  Hopkin  &  Williams,  at  10 
New  Cavendish  Street,  W.,  which  place  has  since  become  a  phar- 
maceutical Mecca  for  the  British  Empire.  In  1889  Mr.  Martindale 
was  elected  to  the  Council  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  and  the 
esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  his  confreres  is  shown  by  the  fact 
that  he  was  usually  returned  to  the  Council  at  the  head  of  the  poll. 
His  colleagues  upon  the  Council  elected  him  treasurer  in  1898,  and 
in  the  following  year  he  was  elected  to  the  presidency  of  the  Phar- 
maceutical Society  of  Great  Britain,  succeeding  Mr.  Walter  Hills, 
Unfortunately,  about  this  time  ill-health  supervened  and  he  was 
compelled  to  take  frequent  periods  of  change  and  rest.  Even  dur- 
ing these  periods  he  was  not  idle,  as  the  sea  voyages  which  he  took 
for  the  benefit  of  his  health  led  to  investigations  upon  the  materia 
medica  of  the  countries  visited,  with  subsequent  contributions 
either  to  the  Pharmaceutical  Society's  meetings  or  to  the  trade  pub- 
lications. 
Mr.  Martindale  early  took  an  interest  in  the  meetings  of  the 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference.  Elected  in  1869,  he  was  soon 
appointed  to  the  Executive  Committee,  and  in  1886  became  Chair- 
man of  its  Formulary  Committee,  which  post  he  held  for  many 
