Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,711 pages of information and 247,105 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.
c.1856 Born in Paddington[1]; son of William Simpson, artists' colourman; nephew of George Simpson (1819-1894)
1871 Apprenticed to Valentine Sentance, grocer[2]
1879 A chemist; married Emma Eugenie Pelham in Belsize Park[3]
1891 Scientific chemist and aniline manufacturer, living in Hackney with Emma E Simpson 32[4]
1911 Aniline dye manufacturer, living in Southgate with Emma Eugine Simpson[5]
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