Professor Edward Frankland mb-code 42-32400349 Sir Wilfrid Lawson

Sir Wilfrid Lawson

by Reverend James Gardner

Village near Calcutta

View of figures and a dog with the Church of St Michael

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Professor Edward Frankland mb-code 42-32400349 Sir Wilfrid LawsonProfessor Edward Frankland, 1880. He became professor of chemistry in 1850 at the Royal College of Engineers, and in 1865 became professor of chemistry at the Royal School of Mines. He has been accredited with devising the theory of valence. He also undertook research into water purification and town drainage. He was knighted in 1897. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science,