Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

William Stevens Squire

From Graces Guide

c.1834 Born in London, son of Peter Squire and his wife Mary

1851 Living with Peter Squire, chemist, and his family in Hampstead[1]

1861 Analytical chemist and Doctor of Philosophy, Heidelberg; living in St Marylebone with his wife Anne, age 32, and son William 2 months[2]

1871 Manufacturing chemist[3]

William Stevens Squire of Dunn, Squire and Co, at Stratford in Essex.

1872 Dunn, Squire and Co was dissolved.

Then formed the company Squire, Chapman & Co. with Mr Spencer Chapman, premises at North Woolwich Rd, Silvertown, as makers of sulphuric acid[4].

1878 Retired from position of managing director of Squire Chapman and Messel

1881 Chemical engineer[5]

1891 Chemical engineer [6]

1906 Died

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Sources of Information

  1. 1851 census
  2. 1861 census
  3. 1871 census
  4. Chemicals from Coal, by C A Townsend [1]
  5. 1881 census
  6. 1891 census