James Ernest Marsh
(1860-1938), ChemistSitter in 1 portrait
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1926
NPG x186497
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Jeremy Noakes
08 May 2018, 17:56
He was my grandfather. He was born in 1860 and brought up in Rainhill near St. Helens. His father was the owner of a chemical works and a mayor of St. Helens. He was educated at Rugby School from where he won a scholarship to study science at Balliol College, Oxford. He gained the top first of his year and in 1882 went to Bonn University for a year to do research in organic chemistry under the great August Kekule. He then went on to the Sorbonne to study medicine. He then spent a year or two as science master at Exeter School. In 1886 he was appointed a University Demonstrator in Chemistry at Oxford University. In 1906 he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of Merton College Oxford, where he remained until 1930. He died on 13 April in 1938 in Oxford. He had five daughters, the second of whom was my mother.