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Dunn, Squire and Co

From Graces Guide

of Stratford, Essex

1870 Business established to make sulphuric acid

1872 Dissolution of the Partnership between Spencer Dunn and William Stevens Squire, as Acetic Acid Makers and Manufacturing Chemists, at Nos. 1 and 10, Princes Square, Finsbury, London, E.C., and at Langthorne Chemical Works, Stratford, Essex.[1]

1875 Rudolph Messel, a research chemist who had emigrated from Germany, became assistant to William Stevens Squire in Dunn, Squire & Co.

Shortly afterwards, Squire joined with Spencer Chapman (c.1844-1918) to form a new business Squire, Chapman & Co., taking Messel with him to the new concern.


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Sources of Information

  1. London Gazette 16 February 1872