The Right Honourable
SIR HENRY ENFIELD ROSCOE
P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S.

Henry E. Roscoe

Photo. E.H. Mills.

Walter L. Colls. Sc.

The Right Honourable
Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe
P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S.

A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

BY
SIR EDWARD THORPE, C.B., F.R.S.

LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
FOURTH AVENUE & 30th STREET, NEW YORK
BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS
1916

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ADVERTISEMENT

This sketch of the life and activities of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe is based, to a large extent, upon an obituary notice prepared at the request of the Councils of the Royal and Chemical Societies, of which its subject was a distinguished member, with a view to publication in their respective Proceedings and Transactions. In its present more extended form it is offered to a wider public as the record of “a life in civic action worn,” and as a slight tribute from a grateful pupil, an attached co-worker, and a lifelong friend to the memory of a strenuous high-minded man, of large aims and generous impulses, who spent his abilities and energies unstintingly in promoting the welfare of science and the good of his kind.

CONTENTS

PAGE
CHAPTER I
WILLIAM ROSCOE—HENRY ROSCOE[1]
CHAPTER II
HENRY ENFIELD ROSCOE—BIRTH AND EDUCATION[16]
CHAPTER III
OWENS COLLEGE, MANCHESTER[28]
CHAPTER IV
THE YORKSHIRE COLLEGE[53]
CHAPTER V
THE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY[77]
CHAPTER VI
ROSCOE AS A TEACHER[97]
CHAPTER VII
ROSCOE AS AN INVESTIGATOR[110]
CHAPTER VIII
ROSCOE AND CHEMICAL LITERATURE[138]
CHAPTER IX
ROSCOE AND THE ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES[146]
CHAPTER X
PUBLIC SERVICES—POLITICAL AND PROFESSIONAL WORK[152]
CHAPTER XI
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON—ETON COLLEGE—UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DUNDEE—SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION—ROYAL COMMISSION OF THE 1851 EXHIBITION—CARNEGIE TRUST: SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES—SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT: SCIENCE MUSEUMS—LISTER INSTITUTE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE[161]
CHAPTER XII
DIGNITIES AND HONOURS—THE DEUTSCHE REVUE—GERMANY AND ENGLAND—WORLD SUPREMACY OR WAR[175]
CHAPTER XIII
HOME LIFE—LADY ROSCOE—WOODCOTE LODGE—PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS—DEATH[190]
INDEX[204]