Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,694 pages of information and 247,075 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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William Foster MA, FCS
c.1846 Born in East Yorkshire
1872 Began undergraduate studies at Cambridge University where he took the MA in 1879[1]
1884 Presented a paper at the Institution of Civil Engineers on "Experiments on the Composition and Destructive Distillation of Coal."
1891 Professor of Chemistry, and privately engaged as analytical chemist, living in St Mary le Strand, London[2]
1893 An analytical chemist when he died in London[3]
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