Professor Edward Frankland mb-code 42-32400349 by Reverend James Gardner

by Reverend James Gardner

Sir Wilfrid Lawson

A print from La France et les Français à Travers les Siècles

Inscribed: 'PLATE XIII

17th June 1957

Professor Edward Frankland mb-code 42-32400349 by Reverend James GardnerProfessor 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,