The Right Honourable Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S. / A Biographical Sketch - T. E. Thorpe

[31] Anglice: “Fair, honest, straightforward, upright, genuine, square.” Wright’s “English Dialect Dictionary.” Cf. Nodal and Milner’s “Lancashire Glossary.”

INDEX

Absorption of hydrochloric acid and ammonia in water, [121]
Agassiz, Louis, [116]
Alais meteorite, [132]
Allerton Hall, [6]
Arsenic-eating in Styria, [132]
Atomic weights, Dalton’s first table of, [132]
Baines, Sir Edward, [61], [73]
Bakerian Lectures, [114]
Balmain, William H., [17]
Barnes, Rev. Dr., [36]
Baxendell, Joseph, [114]
Bessemer process, application of spectroscope to, [133]
Brühl, Professor, [140]
Bryce, Lord, [43]
Bunsen, R. W., his characteristics, [24], [26]
Burning bush, [157]
Carbon dioxide in sea air, [115]
Carnegie, Mr. Andrew, [109]
Carnegie Scholarships and Fellowships, [169]
Cavendish, Lord Frederick, [55], [57], [61], [81]
Chemical action of light, [110]
“Chemistry Primer,” [139]
Chorley, Henry, his appreciation of Henry Roscoe, [14]
Clarke, William, [4], [6]
Clothworkers’ Company of London, [57], [75], [88]
Colonna, Vittoria, her life, by Maria Roscoe, [16]
Columbium trichloride, [181]
Conversation Club, Leeds, [55]
Crompton, Mr. Justice, [20]
Darwin, Sir George, [136]
Darwin, Horace, [121]
Debus, Dr. Heinrich, [142]
Delafontaine, Philippe, [131]
Deutsche Revue, [179]
Devonshire, Duke of, [44], [61], [81], [82]
Dittmar, Wilhelm, [27-35], [121]
Draper (of New York), [110]
Eclipse expedition to Sicily, [134]
Enfield, Dr. William, [15]
Ethyl perchlorate, [122]
Eton College, [165]
Fairbairn, Sir Andrew, [55]
Fairfax, Henry, [46]
Fairfax, Lord, [46]
Faulkner, George, [29]
Firth College, Sheffield, [167]
Forster, W. E., [61], [66], [82]
Frankland, Sir Edward, [128]
Germany and England, [180]
Gibson, John, sculptor, [6]
Goldsmid, Sir Julian, [162]
Gott, Rev. Dr., Bishop of Truro, [73]
Graham, Thomas, his characteristics as a lecturer, [19]
Green, Prof. A. H., [59]
Greenwood, Principal, [34], [44], [48], [50]
Guthrie, Dr. Frederick, [35]
Harden, Dr., [36], [141], [189]
Heaton, Dr. J. D., [55], [57], [83], [86]
Heddle, Professor (of St. Andrews), [126], [127]
Heywood, James, F.R.S., [47]
Heywood, Joseph, [101], [126]
Irving, Washington, his appreciation of William Roscoe, [12]
Jevons, Stanley, [20]
“John Dalton and the Rise of Modern Chemistry,” [141]
Jones, H. L., his plan for University of Manchester, [47]
Joule, James P., [37]
Lead and thallium chlorides, vapour densities of, [131]
Leeds Educational Council, [55]
“Lessons in Elementary Chemistry,” [138]
Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, [171]
Liveing, Dr., first laboratory in Cambridge, [23]
Lunt, Dr. Joseph, [139], [158]
Lupton, Francis, [75]
M’Creery, John, [6]
Manchester University, early attempts to found, [45]
Marshall, Prof. John, his appointment to the Yorkshire College, [74]
Miall, Prof. Louis C., his appointment to Yorkshire College, [42]
Morley, Viscount, of Blackburn, [109]
“New View of Dalton’s Atomic Theory,” [141]
Nussey, Arthur, plan for a Technical Institution for Leeds, [54]
Nussey, George Henry, his plan for a Technical Institution for Leeds and District, [54]
Nussey, Thomas, [53]
Owens College, its origin, [28];
its foundation, [30];
its first professors, [31];
its location, [31];
its growth, [32];
its extension, [41];
new constitution, [42];
its first attempt to include women, [43];
erection of new buildings, [44];
new chemical laboratories, [44]
Owens, John, [28], [29]
Owens, Owen, [28]
Pankhurst, Dr. Richard Marsden, [91]
Perchloric acid and its hydrates, [122]
“Philippium,” [131]
Photochemical induction, [111]
Photometric observations at Pará, [115];
near Lisbon, [120]
Playfair, Lord, [62];
his address on technical education, [63, et seq.]
Pulling, Prof. F. S., his appointment to the Yorkshire College, [74]
Reform Bills, 1831-1832, drafted by Henry Roscoe, [13]
Reid, Sir Wemyss, his support of the Yorkshire College, [68], [141]
Ripon, Lord, [61], [66], [80], [82]
Roscoe, Henry, his birth, [12];
his characteristics, [12];
becomes a barrister, [13];
his legal works, [13];
drafts Reform Bills of 1831-1832; his “Life of William Roscoe,” [13];
married Maria Fletcher, [15];
becomes Judge of the Court of Passage, [14];
his death, [14];
appreciation of him by Henry Chorley, [14]
Roscoe, Henry Enfield, his birth, [16];
his education, [17];
receives his first lessons in chemistry from William H. Balmain, [17];
enters University College, London, [18];
connection with Thomas Graham, [19];
elects to follow chemistry as a career, [20];
enters Birkbeck Laboratory, [21];
his appreciation of Williamson, [21];
becomes Williamson’s assistant, [21];
is offered an assayership in the Sydney Mint, [22];
takes his degree in the University of London, [22];
goes to Bunsen at Heidelberg, [23];
in Heidelberg, [25];
his first published paper, [25];
makes his doctor examination, [25];
memorial lecture on Bunsen, [25-26];
studies German University system, [26];
returns to London, [27];
is appointed to Owens College, [27];
his work at Owens, [34];
his part in shaping the curriculum of the new University, [38];
is elected Chairman of Convocation, [90];
as a teacher, [97];
is offered lectureship at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, [97];
Chair at Oxford, [98];
his method of working the Chemical Department at Owens, [98];
his characteristics as a lecturer, [101];
his portraits by Burgess and Herkomer, [103];
address by students, [103];
as an investigator, [110];
gives his first Bakerian Lecture, [114];
studies the absorption of hydrochloric acid and ammonia in water, [121];
perchloric acid and its hydrates, [122];
vanadium and its compounds, [123];
gives his second Bakerian Lecture, [128];
studies tungsten compounds, [130];
discovers uranium pentachloride, [130];
discovers columbium trichloride, [131];
determines vapour densities of chlorides of lead and thallium, [131];
disproves existence of “philippium,” [131];
maps spark spectrum of terbium, [131];
redetermines the atomic weight of carbon, [131];
lectures on spectrum analysis, [132];
papers on spectrum analysis, [134];
Sicilian eclipse expedition, [134];
wreck of H.M.S. Psyche, [135];
“Lessons in Elementary Chemistry,” [138];
“Chemistry Primer,” [139];
“Treatise on Chemistry,” [139];
“John Dalton and the Rise of Modern Chemistry,” [141];
“New View of Dalton’s Atomic Theory,” [141];
writes his life and experiences, [144];
is elected into the Royal Society, [146];
is awarded a Royal Medal, [146];
joins Chemical Society, [146];
is President, [146];
“Society of Chemical Industry,” [147];
receives medal of Society of Chemical Industry, [149];
Honorary President of the International Congress of Applied Chemistry, [149];
British Association, [150];
British Association President, [151];
member of Royal Commissions, [152];
is knighted, [154];
enters Parliament, [154];
political services, [155];
chemical adviser to Metropolitan Board of Works, [157];
becomes Vice-Chancellor London University, [162];
Fellow of Eton College, [165];
member of Scottish Universities Commission, [167];
of Royal Commission of 1851 Exhibition, [168];
examiner in the Science and Art Department, [170];
Lister Institute, [171];
dignities and honours, [175];
member of Privy Council, [176];
his jubilee, [177];
the Deutsche Revue, [179];
Germany and England, [180];
home life, [190];
characteristics, [191];
Woodcote Lodge, [197];
death, [203]
Roscoe, Maria, her marriage, [15];
her “Life of Vittoria Colonna,” [16];
her characteristics, [16];
letter from, [39]
Roscoe, William, his birth, [2];
his schooling, [2];
his love of literature, [2];
becomes an attorney, [2];
his poem “Mount Pleasant,” [3];
attacks the Slave Trade, [3];
welcomes the French Revolution, [3];
his studies of Italian literature, [4];
his “Life of Lorenzo de’ Medici,” [4];
his translation of Tansillo’s “Nurse,” [5];
his “Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth,” [5];
purchases Allerton Hall, [6];
reclamation of Chat Moss, [6];
his connection with John M’Creery, [6];
his protection of John Gibson, [6];
his interest in botany, [7];
founded Society for the Encouragement of the Arts of Painting and Design, in Liverpool, [7];
Liverpool Academy, [7];
Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, [7];
Liverpool Lyceum, [8];
Liverpool Atheneum, [8];
Liverpool Botanic Garden, [8];
Liverpool Royal Institution, [8];
is elected member for Liverpool, [9];
his share in the Abolition of the Slave Trade, [9];
votes for Catholic Emancipation, [10];
riots in Liverpool, [10];
his Parliamentary work, [10];
failure of Liverpool bank, [10];
his monograph on the monandrian plants, [11];
his edition of Pope’s works, [11];
his death, [12];
appreciation of him by Washington Irving, [12]
Royal Institution, lecture on amount of chemical light in tropics by Roscoe, [118]
Rücker, Sir Arthur, [59], [81], [165]
Sandbach, Mrs., [7]
Schorlemmer, Carl, [35], [102], [121], [139]
Schuster, Dr. Arthur, [131], [133]
Science Lectures for the People, [38]
Scott, Principal A. J., [33]
Scottish Universities Commission, [167]
Scudder, Frank, [159]
Sherbrooke, Lord, [50]
Spectrum analysis, [132]
Spontaneous polymerization of volatile hydrocarbons, [101]
Stewart, Dr. Balfour, [115]
Technical Instruction Commission, [153]
Terbium, spark spectrum of, [131]
Thallium perchlorate, [123]
“The Life and Experiences of Sir Henry E. Roscoe,” [144]
Thompson, Joseph, his “History of Owens College,” [29], [46], [48]
Tithonometer, [111]
“Treatise on Chemistry,” [139]
Tungsten pentabromide and pentachloride, [130]
University College, Dundee, [167]
University College, Liverpool, [167]
University of London, [161]
Uranium pentachloride, [130]
Vanadium and its compounds, [123]
Victoria University, [77];
constitution as proposed by Manchester, [78];
objections by Yorkshire, [80];
joint memorial in favour of, [81];
charter granted, [86];
associates of Owens College the first graduates, [93]
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, [11]
Ward, Sir A. W., [48], [50], [81]
Waterhouse, Alfred, R.A., [44], [75]
Watts, Dr. W. Marshall, [133]
Whatton, W. R., his plans for University of Manchester, [46]
Williamson, Alexander, his characteristics, [21], [93]
World Supremacy or War, [185]
Wreck of H.M.S. Psyche, [135]
Yorkshire Board of Education, [55]
Yorkshire College, the, its origin and growth, [58, et seq.];
report of Yorkshire Board of Education, [56];
foundation of professorships, [58];
its first premises, [59];
its inauguration ceremony, [60];
new college buildings, [75];
Council considers question of foundation of Northern University, [76], [79]

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